complicate
[ˈkɑːmplɪkeɪt]
Definition:
1. Make more complicated.
2. Make more complex, intricate, or richer.
3. To make something more difficult to do, understand or deal with.
'complicate' example sentence:
- Any decision taken by them now, however well meant, could complicate the peace process.
- Constant pressure and sanctions only complicate the problem.
- My goodness but the Modern Woman does like to complicate things.
- To the uninitiated the system seems too complicated.
- Tanks are strongly built. It is a complicated and difficult process to break them up.
- The day's events, he said, would only complicate the task of the peacekeeping forces.
- To complicate matters further, I lost my ID card.
- He always likes to complicate simple matters.
- The Pakistan article in particular would complicate his life.
- This will only complicate rather than solve this issue.
- It would complicate the Fed's job of eventually shrinking its balance-sheet.
- Any decision taken by them now, however well-meant, could complicate the peace process.
- Just to complicate matters, there is a possibility of a post in Sao Paulo.
- Four had no children to complicate their moral dilemmas.
- But relying on the notion of rational investors seems to complicate matters.
- Don't over complicate a good idea.
- The other options simply complicate the situation and could land him with more expense.
- The trailer was connected to the car by means of a complicated system of hoses, pipes and rods.
- Next, let's look at how to complicate these details.
- This requirement tends to complicate code design.
- But the underlying data complicate this picture.
- He was trying to ravel out the complicated series of events that had led to this situation.
- Bad weather continues to complicate efforts to deal with oil spilling from the tanker.
- The text is approachable, coping well with quite complicated subjects.
- Side effects complicate the math required to prove program correctness.
- Doing otherwise would complicate the code for no gain.
- Don't complicate you life.
- Don't complicate such an easy to understand concept.
- I think that is because we unnecessarily complicate it.
- There is no need to complicate matters.
- To my way of thinking, it didn't seem as if it ought to be so terribly complicated.
- We got lost when traveled in Peru. To complicate matters further, we cannot speak the local language.
- But now I'll complicate the problem a bit.
- While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
- She can deal with complicated numbers in her head, but we lesser mortals need calculators!
- To complicate matters further, everybody's vitamin requirements vary.
- His love life was complicated, and involved intense relationships.
- Ray is a complicated, moody man behind the joking front.
- The biology of these diseases is terribly complicated.
- He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale.
- The situation in Lebanon is very complicated.
- The issue is complicated by the fact that a vital document is missing.
- To complicate matters further, there will be no transport available till 8 o'clock.
- It's all very complicated ─ but I'll try and explain.
- My life is further complicated by having to work such long hours.
- I do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary.
- The situation was more complicated than they had at first realized.
- The instructions look very complicated.
- Coordinating airline traffic on the ground is as complicated as managing the traffic in the air.
- The instructions were rather complicated.
- Divorce is complicated enough in normal circumstances, but this situation is even worse.
- What complicates the issue is the burden of history.