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to complicate
01
to make something harder to understand or deal with
Transitive: to complicate a situation
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
complicate
3rd person singular
complicates
Present participle
complicating
Past simple
complicated
Past participle
complicated
Examples
Introducing a new software halfway through the project might complicate our progress.
02
to make a medical condition more difficult to understand, manage, or treat
Transitive: to complicate a medical condition
Examples
The patient 's diabetes was complicated by the development of kidney disease.
Lexical Tree
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