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complicating

verb

Definition of complicatingnext
present participle of complicate
1
as in intensifying
to make complex or difficult the need to go to both a PTA conference and condo board meeting really complicates tonight's schedule

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2
as in deepening
to make more severe asthma that has recently been complicated by a bout of bronchitis

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  1. intensifying
  2. deepening
  3. worsening
  4. aggravating
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  • These impacts are intensifying as fossil fuel emissions warm the global climate.
    Amy Green, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The power vacuum left by Assad’s departure risks intensifying competition among various factions and among country’s many ethnic and religious minorities.
    Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • On Monday, Honda and Nissan signed a memorandum of understanding to formally begin talks aimed at deepening a partnership that began this year.
    River Akira Davis, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Unlike the film's protagonist Amanda Woods, played by Cameron Diaz, Marsh's journey did not involve falling in love with a Jude Law-esque man but rather deepening her spiritual connection and learning to embrace life as a single woman.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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  • Federal and state officials said the new operating rules for the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project that were developed over the last three years will bring greater stability to the state’s supplies in the face of worsening droughts intensified by climate change.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • These conditions may have more severe symptoms that are worsening your PMS.
    Wendy Wisner, Health, 22 Dec. 2024
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  • The International Monetary Fund cited a number of contributing factors that led to a global cost-of-living crisis in its annual report last year, including the pandemic and climate change, which disrupted food and supply chains, in addition to geopolitical conflict’s aggravating the problems.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But he was sidelined with a groin injury late in training camp and apparently returned too soon, aggravating the injury in Week 2 and then being held out until Week 9.
    Phil Rogers, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of aggravating
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