Associations to the word «Complicate»

Wiktionary

COMPLICATE, verb. (transitive) To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
COMPLICATE, verb. (transitive) to expose involvement in a convoluted matter.
COMPLICATE, adjective. (obsolete) Intertwined.
COMPLICATE, adjective. (now rare) (poetic) Complex, complicated.

Dictionary definition

COMPLICATE, verb. Make more complicated; "There was a new development that complicated the matter".
COMPLICATE, verb. Make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne