complicate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they complicate | |
| he / she / it complicates | |
| past simple complicated | |
| past participle complicated | |
| -ing form complicating |
- complicate something
to make something more difficult to do, understand or deal with 使复杂化 I do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary. 我不想使这项任务不必要地复杂化。 To complicate matters further, there will be no transport available till 8 o'clock. 使事情更难办的是 8 点钟之前不会有交通工具。 The issue is complicated by the fact that a vital document is missing. 一份重要文件的丢失使这个问题复杂化了。
Extra ExamplesThese events will greatly complicate the situation. 这些事件将使局势变得极其复杂。 The situation is further complicated by the language difficulties. 语言困难使情况更加复杂。 This latest bloodshed greatly complicates efforts to bring peace to the region. 最近的流血事件使给该地区带来和平的努力变得非常复杂。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- enormously
- greatly
- seriously
- …
- be complicated by the fact that
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘combine, entangle, intertwine’): from Latin complicat- ‘folded together’, from the verb complicare, from com- ‘together’ + plicare ‘to fold’.