verb
definition
To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
definition
To involve in a convoluted matter.
example
Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.
Examples of complicates in a Sentence
The politicization of relief complicates the provision of aid, and may yet scupper the effective reconstruction of Iraq.
In both classes, accepted tradition (written or oral) was reinterpreted in order to justify or to deduce new teaching (in its widest sense), to connect the present with a hallowed past, and to be a guide for the future; and the prevalence of this process, the innumerable different examples of its working, and the particular application of the term Midrash to an important section of Rabbinical literature complicates both the study of the subject and any attempt to treat it concisely.'
The addition of Baby Mario often complicates things.
Another factor that complicates diagnosis is that the various childhood vasculitides have overlapping symptom profiles.
Scarlet fever is a rash that complicates a bacterial throat infection called strep throat.
The force of the gun's delivery further complicates matters around the delicate cartilage of the upper ear and some people require surgical intervention.
Its similarity to asthma, along with the fact that some people with VCD actually also have asthma, complicates diagnosis.
Some other condition, such as nasal polyps or chronic lung disease, complicates the asthma.
The IUD can become embedded in the uterine wall, which complicates the procedure.
This empathic ability complicates Cancer's emotional state of being.
This fluctuation, due partly to the different circles in which the biblical narratives took shape, and partly to definite reshaping of the traditions of the past, seriously complicates all attempts to combine the early history of Israel with the external evidence.
This feature naturally complicates all questions affecting origin and originality, and cannot be ignored in any study of the Talmud in its bearing upon the New Testament.'.
The intricacy of the Deuteronomic redactions still awaits solution, and the late insertion of earlier narratives (which have had their own vicissitudes) complicates the literary evidence.
That was almost certainly a good scheme but it complicates calculations.
However, the ability of some soil clays to fix or release potash complicates the picture.