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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats