# vaguen

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈveɪɡən/

## Definitions
1. To make (something) vague or more vague; to blur, to obscure.
2. To become (more) vague; to blur.

## Etymology
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).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/vaguen