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complication

/ˌkɑm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/ sustantivo C1

En español: complicación

  1. The act or process of complicating. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper. (countable, uncountable)
  4. A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. (countable, uncountable)
  5. A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece. (countable, uncountable)

Plural complications

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De la biblioteca

Your arrest as a suspicious character would be a most unfortunate complication.”
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 30 · B2
In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequate fashion, I have endeavoured to give some account of my strange experiences in his company from the chance which first brought us together at the period of the “Study in Scarlet,” up to the time of his interference in the matter of the “Naval Treaty”—an interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious international complication.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 101 · B2
Speaking of complications, you are going to start your very first job this upcoming summer.
A Letter to My Younger Self, p. 1 · B2

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