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осложня́ть — meaning in English

oslozhnyat

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English meaning

  • complicate verb To make something more difficult or intricate than it needs to be.
  • snarl verb To growl and bare the teeth angrily, as an animal does.

Senses

осложня́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • complicate (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
  • snarl (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.

complicate — full definition

  1. verb To make something more difficult or intricate than it needs to be.
  2. verb (medicine) Of a condition, to develop alongside and worsen another illness.

snarl — full definition

  1. verb To growl and bare the teeth angrily, as an animal does.
  2. verb To speak in an angry, aggressive tone.
  3. verb To tangle something up, or to become congested, as with traffic.
  4. noun A tangled knot, or a bad traffic jam.

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