Usually means: Make something more difficult, intricate.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. complicate: Merriam-Webster
  2. complicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. complicate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. complicate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. complicate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Complicate, complicate: Wordnik
  7. complicate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. complicate: Wiktionary
  9. complicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. complicate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. complicate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. complicate: Dictionary.com
  13. complicate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Complicate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. complicate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. complicate: Rhymezone
  17. complicate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. complicate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. complicate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. complicate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. complicate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. complicate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. complicate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. complicate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. complicate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. complicate: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. complicate: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (complicate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To involve in a convoluted matter.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Intertwined.
▸ adjective:  (now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated.

Similar:
elaborate, perplex, refine, rarify, involve, complex, overcomplicate, complexify, complify, convolute, more...

Opposite:
simplify, ease, streamline

Phrases:
complicate a situation, opposite of complicate, over complicate, more...

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Similar:
elaborate, perplex, refine, rarify, involve, complex, overcomplicate, complexify, complify, convolute, more...

Opposite:
simplify, ease, streamline

Phrases:
complicate a situation, opposite of complicate, over complicate, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     burgundy,     olive,     teal,     mauve, more...



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