complicate
/ˈkɑmplɪkeɪt/ verb B1- To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
- To involve in a convoluted matter. · Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.· John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.
- To coexist with (another disease) creating a complication.
He/she/it complicates · Past complicated · Past participle complicated · -ing form complicating
Verb forms
- Base form
- complicate
- He/she/it
- complicates
- Past
- complicated
- Past participle
- complicated
- -ing form
- complicating
From the library
The case had been considerably complicated through the incident of the escaped convict and the relations between him and the Barrymores.
It has been an exceedingly difficult and most complicated business.
The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.
“This complicates matters,” said Gregson.
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