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vaguen.

To make (something) vague or more vague; to blur, to obscure.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈveɪɡən/General-American, Received-Pronunciation
  1. To make (something) vague or more vague; to blur, to obscure.

    informal · transitive
  2. To become (more) vague; to blur.

    informal · intransitive
Where this word comes from

From vague + -en (suffix forming transitive verbs from adjectives, meaning ‘to make [adjective]’), coined by Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), apparently first in a manuscript note to himself on an initial typescript of his play Happy Days (1961).

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