complicate

compliquer

Rendre une chose plus difficile à faire ou une situation plus difficile à gérer.

En anglais simple : To make something harder to do or deal with.

• Extra rules complicate the task.
• The heavy rain complicated our journey.
• Will this change complicate matters further?

Comment l'utiliser : complicate something by doing something (They complicated the process by adding another form.)

Synonymes : make harder

Contraires : simplify

Expressions courantes : complicate matters, complicate something further, complicate the process

compliquer

Rendre une explication, une idée ou un récit plus difficile à comprendre.

En anglais simple : To make an explanation, idea, or account harder to understand.

• Those details complicate the story.
• He complicated his explanation with unfamiliar words.
• Why complicate a simple answer?

Comment l'utiliser : complicate something with something (Do not complicate the explanation with technical terms.)

Synonymes : make confusing

Contraires : simplify, clarify

Expressions courantes : complicate an explanation, complicate the story, complicate something with