undetermine

English

Etymology

un- +‎ determine

Verb

undetermine (third-person singular simple present undetermines, present participle undetermining, simple past and past participle undetermined)

  1. (transitive) To undo the determining of; to make uncertain.
    • 2000, Daniel Tiffany, Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric, page 173:
      The antithetical features of atomist doctrine are no longer seen as undetermining the principle of the atom, or negating sensuous appearance, but rather as intrinsic to both. Nature is full of contradictions […]
    • 2014, Rupert Crawshay-Williams, Methods and Criteria of Reasoning, page 148:
      In such cases, even the licence conferred by strict speaking is powerless to 'undetermine' the statement—to make any and every context seem admissible.
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