Complicate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Complicate \Com"pli*cate\, a. [L. complicatus, p. p. of
     complicare to fold together. See {Complex}.]
     1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex;
        complicated; involved.
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              How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
              How complicate, how wonderful is man! --Young.
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     2. (Bot.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold
        running lengthwise.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Complicate \Com"pli*cate\, v. 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.
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           Nor can his complicated sinews fail.     --Young.
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           Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated
           principle of action.                     --Addison.
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           When the disease is complicated with other diseases.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  complicate
       v 1: make more complicated; "There was a new development that
            complicated the matter" [syn: {perplex}] [ant: {simplify}]
       2: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or
          pattern" [syn: {refine}, {rarify}, {elaborate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "complicate":
     accelerate, add, adjoin, affix, agglutinate, aggravate, annex,
     append, attach, ball up, beef up, blow up, burden, concentrate,
     condense, confound, confuse, conjoin, consolidate, decorate,
     deepen, derange, disarrange, disorder, double, embrangle, encumber,
     enhance, entangle, exacerbate, exaggerate, foul up, garble,
     glue on, heat up, heighten, hitch on, hop up, hot up, implicate,
     infix, intensify, involve, jazz up, join with, jumble, key up,
     knot, louse up, magnify, make complex, make unintelligible,
     mess up, mix up, muck, muck up, muddle, mystify, obfuscate,
     obscure, ornament, paste on, perplex, plus, postfix, prefix,
     put with, ramify, ravel, redouble, reinforce, saddle with,
     scramble, screw up, shadow, sharpen, slap on, snafu, snarl,
     snarl up, soup up, step up, strengthen, subjoin, suffix, superadd,
     superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, tangle, triple, unite with, upset,
     whet