jargonize

verb

jar·gon·ize ˈjär-gə-ˌnīz

jargonized; jargonizing

transitive verb

: to make into jargon

: to express in jargon

intransitive verb

: to speak or write jargon

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1803, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

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