0 present participle of complicate
1 to make something more difficult to deal with, do, or understand:
There were no complicating interactions so these two factors operated independently of each other.
These conditions are sometimes difficult to diagnose because of multiple complicating factors in patients undergoing cancer treatment and oncologists' unfamiliarity of these conditions.
In addition, this event co-dependency makes it nearly impossible to play back only a snippet from the middle of the script, further complicating rehearsal coordination.
However, we acknowledge that dialect differences prior to the migrations may be a complicating factor.
In my view, the theory makes its gains by complicating the total system rather than simplifying it.
Whichever is the case, this is clearly a complicating factor in any attempt to explain performance in terms of heuristics alone.
Operative mortality and survival data for the patients with complicating lesions, in contrast, supports unequivocally the appropriateness of conversion from atrial to arterial repair.
It did not justify complicating the methodology by altering the classification of lengths for each year in the sample.
