🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

complication noun

  • The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
  • (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
 complication

complicated adjective

  /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪtɪd/ , /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪd/
  • Difficult or convoluted.
 compliqué, alambiqué

complicate verb

  /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪt/ , /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪt/ , /ˈkɒmplɪkət/
  • (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
 compliquer

complicity noun

  • The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
 complicité

🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

complication noun {f}

  /kɔ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃/
  • Assemblage, concours d’éléments, de circonstances ou d’incidents multiples susceptibles de créer des embarras, ou d’augmenter la difficulté ou le danger
 complication, setback
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