Meaning & use
Complexify
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To make something more complex or complicated than it was before.
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Adding three more approval steps only complexified a process that was already slow.
The new regulations complexify an already confusing tax system.
A note on using this word
"Complexify" is a somewhat informal back-formation from "complex," increasingly common in technology and business writing as a counterpart to "simplify."
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complicateconvolute
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