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Complication   /kˌɑmpləkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Complication

noun
1.
The act or process of complicating.
2.
A situation or condition that is complex or confused.
3.
Any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease.
4.
A development that complicates a situation.  Synonym: ramification.
5.
Puzzling complexity.  Synonyms: complicatedness, knottiness, tortuousness.






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"Complication" Quotes from Famous Books



... letter set Mrs Jo's lively fancy in a ferment, and she imagined every known crime, affliction, and complication which could possibly have befallen Dan. He was too feeble to be worried with questions now, but she promised herself most interesting revelations when she got him safe at home; for the 'firebrand' was her most interesting boy. ...
— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott

... that there will be no war, that the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope will suffer no setback in his brilliant career, that the indiscreet Sovereign will receive no punishment for his indiscretion, that the Prime Minister will have no European complication to deal with, and that with a little tact and management upon our part nobody will be a penny the worse for what might have been a ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle

... he should pass through Argenta, reach Hatch's Cove and eventually the Silver Shield mine, and reach this latter unknown and unsuspected. Toomey and he had hit on a plan—once Toomey could succeed in getting word to Nolan. But that, reasoned Geordie, might be impossible now in view of this new complication—serious trouble at the mines, and "every man out at ...
— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King

... 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. It was my intention to have stopped there, and to have said nothing of that event which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two years has done little to fill. My hand has been forced, however, ...
— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

... again as he had schemed and intrigued to come to Paris in the first place. He thought of the white marble building and the officers with shiny puttees going in and out, and the typewriters clicking in every room, and the understanding of his helplessness before all that complication made him shiver. ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos


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