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complicate

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Word definitions for complicate in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES complex/complicated ▪ The Australian health care system is extremely complex. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB extremely ▪ This sort of request has extremely complicated emotional, practical and social repercussions ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context obsolete English) intertwined. 2 (context now rare poetic English) complex, complicated. v 1 (context transitive English) To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Complicate \Com"pli*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Complicated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Complicating .] To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult. Nor can his complicated sinews ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to intertwine" (as a past participle adjective, early 15c.), from Latin complicatus "folded together; confused, intricate," past participle of complicare (see complication ). Meaning "to make more complex" is recorded from 1832, from earlier sense ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. make more complicated; "There was a new development that complicated the matter" [syn: perplex ] [ant: simplify ] make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" [syn: refine , rarify , elaborate ]

Usage examples of complicate.

Of course, there are spells on your house, various types of complicated protection spells that only Albus knows about or understands, but we needed to safeguard against someone going after one of your neighbors in order to be close to you.

Nor would Areopagus or Akropolis be puzzled so much had St Paul preached to them the modern European Christianity with its complicated spirit of all kinds of compromises with Heaven and Hell, compromise with the State, Plutocracy, Nationalism, Imperialism, Conquest, War, Diplomacy, Secular Philosophy, Secular Science, Agnostic Parliaments, Tribal Chauvinism, Education, Officialism, Bureaucracy, etc.

But autocatalysis and homeostasis enabled simple structures to interact and spin off more complex structures still, until living things emerged, which combined into ever more complicated entities.

It should also be remarked of Lord George Bentinck, that in his most complicated calculations he never sought aid from notes.

Hastily, before the Eastern front, the position around Bialystok for instance, can come up, action is taken: hapazardly the assassin puts the brief case with contents under the card table, on which lie the general staff maps with their complicated markings, around which Messrs.

Genemod was a complicated process, and once the zygote had become blastomeres, no further permanent engineering was possible.

In that way the Ferrarese school became somewhat complicated with the Bolognese school, and is confused in its history to this day.

Strange as it seems, the issue is further complicated by all of the health benefits botulinum toxin offers.

The cable terminated in a knot of dozens of others, at a complicated cagework that threaded the axle of a town-wheel.

He tried to reduce complicated national issues to memorable slogans - the Vision, the National Development Policy, Unhyphenated Canadianism, the Confederation Platform, the Five-Year Plan, the Bill of Rights, proCanadianism - then represented himself as having a personal monopoly over the undeniably good things for which they stood.

After a complicated moment, Carcer was lying on the iron latticework, one arm under him, the other outflung and being banged heavily on the metal by Vimes.

Madame Carnot has complicated things by prematurely introducing you to these concepts.

When reflecting upon her, his thoughts would frequently glance upon Laurentina, she whose Circean charms had accomplished his overthrow, arid dwell with painful regret upon the recollection of his complicated enmes and misfortunes.

The region in question had coalesced over time into an oblate sphere, which, as a consequence of complicated processes of pattern propagation that had coevolved with the structures, both rotated and described an orbit through the matrix about one of the primary data-entry ports spaced in a regular grid throughout its volume.

The Marine plan, which called for coordination among multiple commands, was overly complicated and badly coordinated.