Definition of "complicate"

complicate

/ˈkɑmplɪkeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present complicates, present participle complicating, simple past and past participle complicated
1. (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
  Quotations
  Let us, however, put aside for the moment the mendacities and forgeries which complicate the question of Lucifer, and let us approach Palladism from an altogether different side.
  1896, Arthur Edward Waite, “Chapter 14”, in Devil-Worship in France, or the Question of Lucifer
2. (transitive) To involve in a convoluted matter.
adjective
comparative more complicate, superlative most complicate
1. (obsolete) Intertwined.
2. (now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated.
  Quotations
  How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!
  1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, section I

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