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complicate
[ verb kom-pli-keyt; adjective kom-pli-kit ]
verb (used with object)
- to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult:
His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
adjective
- complex; involved.
- Entomology. folded longitudinally one or more times, as the wings of certain insects.
complicate
verb
- to make or become complex
adjective
- biology folded on itself
a complicate leaf
- a less common word for complicated
Other Words From
- o·ver·com·pli·cate verb (used with object) overcomplicated overcomplicating
- pre·com·pli·cate verb (used with object) precomplicated precomplicating
- re·com·pli·cate verb (used with object) recomplicated recomplicating
- un·com·pli·cate verb (used with object) uncomplicated uncomplicating
Word History and Origins
Origin of complicate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of complicate1
Example Sentences
That tension — between editorial desire for a straightforward narrative and blurry reality — is made more complicated by herding, when polling firms toss results that don’t align with a dominant plotline.
Housing secretary Angela Rayner has described the plans as "decisive action" but campaigners have labelled them as "extremely disappointing" proposals that will "only make a horribly complicated process worse".
Several legal grey areas will likely need to be resolved in court and could complicate a scheme to reclassify tens of thousands of civil servants as Schedule F or to fire them.
What has complicated their grief is that the drugs he took had been mixed with a nitazene, a synthetic opioid that can be lethal even in small doses.
But it is also avoids complicated computer algorithms and relies instead on more traditional personality quizzes shared with members online at the start of every month.
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