Definition of "complicates" [complicates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complicate. (verb)

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• "The Tottenham fans' attempt to re-claim the word complicates the issue, but I don't think the argument of the Chelsea fan mentioned in the article would garner much sympathy if his friends were shouting racist abuse at a rapper who was using the 'same word' in his performance."
• ""What I hear is that people want to create a sense of union, and having that hyphenated name complicates things," she said."
• "That designation complicates a petition by Jackson's mother Katherine to become the administrator of his lucrative, but debt-encumbered estate."