vaguen

发音

US /ˈveɪɡən/
其它
UK /ˈveɪɡən/

词形变化

vaguened vaguening vaguens 三单 vaguens vaguening 现在分词 vaguened 过去式 vaguened 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

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

    非正式 及物
  2. 2.

    To become (more) vague; to blur.

    非正式 不及物

词源

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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