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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! --Young. 2. (Bot.) Folded together, or upon itself with the fold running lengthwise. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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