complicate

About 2.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
2. verb To involve in a convoluted matter.

   Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.

3. verb To coexist with (another disease) creating a complication.
4. adjective Intertwined.
5. adjective Complex, complicated.

Similar words

elaborate perplex refine rarify complex confuse impede hinder obstruct jeopardize

Often followed by

the matters things and this our a their his it

Word family

complicated complicates complicating