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complication
[ kom-pli-key-shuhn ]
noun
- the act of complicating.
- a complicated complicated or involved state or condition.
- a complex combination of elements or things.
- something that introduces, usually unexpectedly, some difficulty, problem, change, etc.:
Because of the complications involved in traveling during the strike, we decided to postpone our trip.
- Pathology. a concurrent disease, accident, or adverse reaction that aggravates the original disease.
- the act of forming a unified idea or impression from a number of sense data, memories, etc.
complication
/ ˌkɒmplɪˈkeɪʃən /
noun
- a condition, event, etc, that is complex or confused
- the act or process of complicating
- a situation, event, or condition that complicates or frustrates
her coming was a serious complication
- a disease or disorder arising as a consequence of another disease
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Other Words From
- compli·cative adjective
- precom·pli·cation noun
- recom·pli·cation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of complication1
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Example Sentences
The next complication is the lack of scientific and religious clarity over how to define when life begins.
My major complication rate doing late abortions is 0.6 percent.
The main complication for sellers comes if they need to convert stamps back into cash.
Fewer than 0.3 percent of women undergoing legal abortion procedures sustain a serious complication.
Government policy, especially foreign policy, is rife with nuance and complication.
"It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.
It reappears during a relapse, and thus helps to distinguish between a relapse and a complication, in which it does not reappear.
The complication of business has led to the adoption of another principle in managing corporations.
This it brings about in a very simple manner, though the details of the process have a certain complication.
He fathomed every complication of heart and mind in the modern woman by an intuition of the laws which control her development.
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