ambiguify

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To ambiguate; to make ambiguous.
    — 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.

词形变化

ambiguifies present,singular,third-person ambiguifying participle,present ambiguified participle,past ambiguified past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
Proto-Italic *amβi
Latin ambi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin ambig(ō)
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Italic *-wos
Latin -uus
Latin ambiguuslbor.
English ambigu(ous)
Latin -i-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-fakāō
Latin -ficō
Latin -ificāreder.
Old French -ifierbor.
Middle English -ifien
English -ify
English ambiguify
From ambigu(ous) + -ify.
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