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recomplicate

recomplicate verb: to complicate again or anew.

Verb

recomplicate (third-person singular simple present recomplicates, present participle recomplicating, simple past and past participle recomplicated)

  1. (transitive) To complicate again or anew.
    • Both tendencies enabled her to be one of a small group of painters — including Philip Guston, Frank Stella and Brice Marden — who during the 1970s rebuilt the medium from scratch, recomplicating and expanding its parameters and proving that it was still ripe for innovation, in part because of its...2007 August 13, Roberta Smith, “Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies”, in New York Times

Forms of recomplicate

third-person singular presentrecomplicates
present participlerecomplicating
past participlerecomplicated
pastrecomplicated

Origin of recomplicate

From re- + complicate.

Questions about recomplicate

What does recomplicate mean?
Recomplicate means to complicate again or anew.
What part of speech is recomplicate?
Recomplicate is a verb.
What is the past tense of recomplicate?
The past tense of recomplicate is recomplicated.

Words near recomplicate in the dictionary

  1. recompletes
  2. recompleting
  3. recompletion
  4. recompletions
  5. recompliance
  6. recomplicate
  7. recomplicated
  8. recomplicates
  9. recomplicating
  10. recomplication
  11. recomplications

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