Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ambiguify
Participle: ambiguified
Gerund: ambiguifying
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | ambiguify |
| you | ambiguify |
| he;she;it | ambiguifies |
| we | ambiguify |
| you | ambiguify |
| they | ambiguify |
Perfect
| I | have ambiguified |
| you | have ambiguified |
| he;she;it | has ambiguified |
| we | have ambiguified |
| you | have ambiguified |
| they | have ambiguified |
Past
| I | ambiguified |
| you | ambiguified |
| he;she;it | ambiguified |
| we | ambiguified |
| you | ambiguified |
| they | ambiguified |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambiguified |
| you | had ambiguified |
| he;she;it | had ambiguified |
| we | had ambiguified |
| you | had ambiguified |
| they | had ambiguified |
Future
| I | will ambiguify |
| you | will ambiguify |
| he;she;it | will ambiguify |
| we | will ambiguify |
| you | will ambiguify |
| they | will ambiguify |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ambiguified |
| you | will have ambiguified |
| he;she;it | will have ambiguified |
| we | will have ambiguified |
| you | will have ambiguified |
| they | will have ambiguified |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ambiguify |
| you | ambiguify |
| he;she;it | ambiguify |
| we | ambiguify |
| you | ambiguify |
| they | ambiguify |
Perfect
| I | have ambiguified |
| you | have ambiguified |
| he;she;it | have ambiguified |
| we | have ambiguified |
| you | have ambiguified |
| they | have ambiguified |
Imperfect
| I | ambiguified |
| you | ambiguified |
| he;she;it | ambiguified |
| we | ambiguified |
| you | ambiguified |
| they | ambiguified |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambiguified |
| you | had ambiguified |
| he;she;it | had ambiguified |
| we | had ambiguified |
| you | had ambiguified |
| they | had ambiguified |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ambiguify |
| you | would ambiguify |
| he;she;it | would ambiguify |
| we | would ambiguify |
| you | would ambiguify |
| they | would ambiguify |
Perfect
| I | would have ambiguified |
| you | would have ambiguified |
| he;she;it | would have ambiguified |
| we | would have ambiguified |
| you | would have ambiguified |
| they | would have ambiguified |
Imperative
| you | ambiguify |
| we | Let's ambiguify |
| you | ambiguify |
Verbs conjugated like 'ambiguify'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ambiguify'
adsignify,
ambiguate,
biggify,
acidify,
ambition,
ammonify,
amplify,
anglify,
angrify,
argufy,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
6. Proto-Italic *amβi-
7. Latin ambi-
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
10. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
11. Proto-Italic *agō
12. Latin agō
13. Latin ambig(ō)
14. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
15. Proto-Italic *-wos
16. Latin -uus
17. Latin ambiguuslbor.
18. English ambigu(ous)
19. Latin -i-
20. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
21. Proto-Italic *θakos
22. Proto-Italic *-fakos
23. Latin -ficus
24. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
25. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
26. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
27. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
28. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
29. Proto-Italic *-ājō
30. Proto-Italic *-āō
31. Latin -ō
32. Latin -ficō
33. Latin -ificāreder.
34. Old French -ifierbor.
35. Middle English -ifien
36. English -ify
37. English ambiguify
38. From ambigu(ous) + -ify.
Sample Sentences
-
So the performer must understand what Mozart has done — that he takes our universal instinct of symmetry and plays with it, violates it, ambiguifies it, by using the equally universal process of deletion to operate counter to those instinctive symmetrical forces that operate in us. [1976, Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard, page 105:]
-
Ultimately, however, even that recognition is ambiguified in Maria's refusal to confront the party responsible for her poisoned pregnancy. [2002, Linda S. Myrsiades, Splitting the Baby: The Culture of Abortion in Literature and Law, Rhetoric and Cartoons:]
-
Most oddly, the controversy that trailed the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the President of Nigeria in April, 2011, has further beclouded and ambiguified the very content and practice of power zoning. [2012, Bonn Obiekwe Godwin Nwanolue, Chike Osegbue, Victor Chidubem Iwuoha, “Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Nigerian Democracy”, in ANSU Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, volume 1, number (2), academia.edu, pages 25–47:]
-
A third technique commonly used by Japanese game developers might be described as ambiguifying. This technique embraces mukokuseki or statelessness as a design strategy, in which characters have ambiguous racial and cultural backgrounds (for example, having blue hair), in order to appeal to the broadest market possible. [2014, A Vasalou, R Khaled, D Gooch, L Benton, “Problematizing cultural appropriation”, in Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCHI annual symposium on Computer-human interaction in play, dl.acm.org:]