ambiguify

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ambiguify (third-person singular simple present ambiguifies, present participle ambiguifying, simple past and past participle ambiguified)

To ambiguate; to make ambiguous.
- 1976, Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard‎^[1], page 105:
  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.
- 2002, Linda S. Myrsiades, Splitting the Baby: The Culture of Abortion in Literature and Law, Rhetoric and Cartoons‎^[2]:
  Ultimately, however, even that recognition is ambiguified in Maria's refusal to confront the party responsible for her poisoned pregnancy.
- 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:
  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.
- 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:
  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.