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Complicate   /kˈɑmpləkˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Complicate  v. t.  (past & past part. complicated; pres. part. 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 fail." "Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action." "When the disease is complicated with other diseases."


adjective
Complicate  adj.  
1.
Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved. "How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man!"
2.
(Bot.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.





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"Complicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... reappearance, a fresh source of anxiety arose. She was afraid that her daughter, who had at one time, as she fancied, a feeling for Levin, might, from extreme sense of honor, refuse Vronsky, and that Levin's arrival might generally complicate and delay the affair so near ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... my lips are often sealed, and my hands drop paralyzed. Not that they alter God's truth, or make the duty of protest against existing wrong any less incumbent: but they obscure the truth; they needlessly complicate the duty. ...
— A Practical Illustration of Woman's Right to Labor - A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia • Marie E. Zakrzewska
... together. But he only said, "Si, si." He did not mean to quarrel with Emilio yet. To do so might complicate ...
— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens
... assistant. "Don't complicate your diseases by adding heart trouble. Three times today I've caught you peeping at me through the crack of that door. Within fifteen seconds of the last peep I find you snoring. Therefore, ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
... bitter experience, that all persons above thirty-five were spoil-sports, prevented him. After all, he supposed he would have to go through with College, and she would have to 'come out,' before they could be married; so why complicate things, so long as he could see her? Sisters were teasing and unsympathetic beings, a brother worse, so there was no one to confide in. Ah! And this beastly divorce business! What a misfortune to have a name which other people hadn't! If only he had been called Gordon or Scott ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


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