complicate
verb (used with object)
to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult.
were complicating
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past progressiveof complicate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"All of those things were complicating factors in doing good quality public opinion polls."
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2024
Unstable rubble and debris were complicating search and rescue efforts in rural Papua New Guinea on Saturday, a day after a massive landslide buried villages and killed at least three people.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2024
Rescue workers at the scene said bad weather and the remote location were complicating the search effort.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2022
Lidia, a freelance worker from Rostov said the money transfer curbs were complicating receiving payments from abroad.
From Reuters ● Mar. 5, 2022
The high-born dames who a few months ago were complicating their desires with psychological subtleties, are now admiring the military man with the same simplicity that the maid has for the common soldier.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
