complicate
verb (used with object)
to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult.
will complicate
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future tenseof complicate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“This dispersal across Europe, like an archipelago of power, will complicate our adversaries’ calculus,” Macron said while standing in front of a French nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine at France’s Île Longue base off the Brittany coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
For Natalia Nikolaeva, a 23-year-old painter, it is especially regrettable that the bans will complicate communication with older people.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Observers say what will complicate Yoon's trial is the fact that the court only has six justices out of nine, as three had retired recently and have yet to be replaced.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2024
Long concerned about HTS taking power, Washington continues to designate it a terrorist group, which will complicate any dealings with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2024
In another direction there must be a movement towards the relaxation of the marriage law and of divorce that will complicate status very confusingly.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
