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Webster 1913 Edition
Complicate
1.
Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How
How
complicate
, how wonderful is man! Young.
2.
(Bot.)
Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.
Com′pli-cate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Complicated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
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. Young.
Avarice and luxury very often become one
complicated
principle of action. Addison.
When the disease is
complicated
with other diseases. Arbuthnot.
Webster 1828 Edition
Complicate
COMPLICATE
, v.t.1.
Literally, to interweave; to fold and twist together. Hence, to make complex; to involve; to entangle; to unite or connect mutually or intimately, as different things or parts; followed by with.Our offense against God hath been complicated with injury to men.
So we say, a complicated disease; a complicated affair.
Commotion in the parts may complicate and dispose them after the manner requisite to make them stick.
2.
To make intricate.COMPLICATE
, a.1.
Complex; composed of two or more parts united.Through the particular actions of war are complicate in fact, yet they are separate and distinct in right.
2.
In botany, folded together, as the valves of the glume or chaff in some grasses.Definition 2024
complicate
complicate
English
Verb
complicate (third-person singular simple present complicates, present participle complicating, simple past and past participle complicated)
- (transitive) To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
- Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.
- (transitive) to expose involvement in a convoluted matter.
- John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.
- The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.
Synonyms
- (expose involvement in a convoluted matter) intricate, entangle, embroil, mix up (in something), mire
Related terms
Translations
to combine intricately
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See also
Adjective
complicate (comparative more complicate, superlative most complicate)
- (obsolete) Intertwined.
- (now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated.
- 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, I:
- How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!
- 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, I:
External links
- complicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- complicate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Italian
Adjective
complicate
- feminine plural of complicato
Verb
complicate
- second-person plural present indicative of complicare
- second-person plural imperative of complicare
- feminine plural of complicato