усложня́ть — meaning in English
uslozhnyat
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English meaning
- aggravate verb To make a bad situation, problem, or injury worse.
- complicate verb To make something more difficult or intricate than it needs to be.
Senses
усложня́ть is used for these senses in English:
- aggravate (now, rare) To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify. [from 16th c.]
- complicate (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
aggravate — full definition
- verb To make a bad situation, problem, or injury worse.
- verb To annoy or irritate someone.
complicate — full definition
- verb To make something more difficult or intricate than it needs to be.
- verb (medicine) Of a condition, to develop alongside and worsen another illness.