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"ref": "1896, Arthur Edward Waite, “Chapter 14”, in Devil-Worship in France, or the Question of Lucifer",
"text": "Let us, however, put aside for the moment the mendacities and forgeries which complicate the question of Lucifer, and let us approach Palladism from an altogether different side.",
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"(transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult."
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"text": "Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.",
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"text": "John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.",
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"text": "The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.",
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"roman": "taʕaqqada",
"sense": "to combine intricately",
"word": "تَعَقَّدَ"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to combine intricately",
"word": "弄複雜"
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"roman": "nòng fùzá",
"sense": "to combine intricately",
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"sense": "to combine intricately",
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"sense": "to combine intricately",
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"word": "複雑にする"
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"sense": "to combine intricately",
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"sense": "to combine intricately",
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"word": "complica"
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{
"categories": [
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "complicar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular voseo imperative of complicar combined with te"
],
"links": [
[
"complicar",
"complicar#Spanish"
],
[
"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"object-second-person",
"object-singular",
"second-person",
"singular",
"with-voseo"
]
}
],
"word": "complicate"
}
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