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complicate verb [ ˈkɒmplɪkeɪt ]

• make (something) more complicated.
• "increased choice will complicate matters for the consumer"
Similar: make (more) difficult, make complex, make complicated, mix up, confuse, muddle, entangle, embroil, mess up, snarl up, screw up, perplex, embarrass, ravel,
Opposite: simplify,
Origin: early 17th century (in the sense ‘combine, entangle, intertwine’): from Latin complicat- ‘folded together’, from the verb complicare, from com- ‘together’ + plicare ‘to fold’.


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