Usually means: Clarify meaning, remove uncertainty, specify.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word disambiguate:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. disambiguate: Merriam-Webster
  2. disambiguate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disambiguate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disambiguate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disambiguate: Vocabulary.com
  6. disambiguate: Wordnik
  7. disambiguate: Wiktionary
  8. disambiguate: Dictionary.com
  9. Disambiguate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. disambiguate: Rhymezone
  11. disambiguate: FreeDictionary.org
  12. disambiguate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. disambiguate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. disambiguate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  15. disambiguate: Infoplease Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  2. disambiguate: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  2. disambiguate: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disambiguate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.
verb:  (linguistics) To distinguish one word or lexical unit (from a different one which has a similar form).

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