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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



... the human element behind the whole British awakening? Will organised labour, an ancient sore on the British body, rise up and complicate these well-laid schemes for economic expansion? As with the question of practicability of the Paris Pact, there is ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson
... assign, with all sorts of anxieties about food, pressures, pricks, noises, and pains. It is born, as another wise myth has it, in original sin. And the passions and ambitions of life, as they come on, only complicate this burden and make it heavier, without rendering it less incessant or gratuitous. Whence this fatality, and whither does it lead? It comes from heredity, and it leads to propagation. When we ask how heredity could be started or transmitted, our ignorance ...
— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana
... heard the louder sounds made by Smithers, stirring ever so slightly in the Tube. And then he caught a vague, distant uproar. It would have been faint and confused at best but the Tube was partly blocked by Smithers' body, and there were the multiple bends further to complicate the echoes. It was no more than a formless tumult through which faint yells came occasionally. It drew nearer and nearer. Tommy heard Smithers stir suddenly, almost as if he had jumped. Then there were scrapings which could only mean one ...
— The Fifth-Dimension Tube • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... went again to the home of Judge Strong. He had persuaded McGowan to let him act in the matter, for he feared that the Irishman's temper would complicate things and make it more difficult to secure Deborah's rights by creating some feeling in the community against ...
— The Calling Of Dan Matthews • Harold Bell Wright
... necessitate great thoroughness of preparation and only such a measure of despatch as can be secured without endangering thoroughness. Whether the projected expedition shall include troops, the conditions at the time must dictate. Troops with their transports will much complicate and increase the difficulties of the problem, and they may or may not be needed. The critical results can be accomplished by naval operations only; since nothing can be accomplished if the naval part of ...
— The Navy as a Fighting Machine • Bradley A. Fiske


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