verb
- Make more complicated.
- usage: "There was a new development that complicated the matter"
- synonyms: complicate, perplex
- Make more complex, intricate, or richer.
- usage: "refine a design or pattern"
- synonyms: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
adjective
- Difficult to analyze or understand.
- usage: "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"
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