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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Complicate

/käm'-plək-ātˌ/ · Com·pli·cate · IPA /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪt/
01 a. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
  1. 1.
    Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
    “How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man!” — Young.
  2. 2.
    Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.(Bot.)
02 v. t. To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
imp. & p. p. Complicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Complicating
  1. 1.
    To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
    “Nor can his complicated sinews fail.” — Young.
    “Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action.” — Addison.
    “When the disease is complicated with other diseases.” — Arbuthnot.