complicating

Verb

complicate (third-person singular simple present complicates, present participle complicating, simple past and past participle complicated)

1. (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
   • Let us, however, put aside for the moment the mendacities and forgeries which complicate the question of Lucifer, and let us approach Palladism from an altogether different side.1896, Arthur Edward Waite, “Chapter 14”, in Devil-Worship in France, or the Question of Lucifer
2. (transitive) To involve in a convoluted matter.
   • Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.

   Synonyms:

   intricate, entangle, embroil, involve, mix up, mire

3. (transitive) To coexist with (another disease) creating a complication.
   • Masked or larvate malaria, like pernicious malaria, needs complete overhauling. Nearly every disease in the category has been confounded with malaria and classed as larvate. This heterogeneous group has been expanded to embrace diseases unrelated to malaria, diseases complicating malaria, and...1909, William Heiskell Deaderick, A Practical Study of Malaria, page 232

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