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complexify

(kəmˈplɛksɪˌfaɪ)
vb, -fies, -fying or -fied
to make or become complex
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Verb1.complexify - have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions will ramify"
change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
2.complexify - make complex; "he unnecessarily complexified every problem"
complicate, perplex - make more complicated; "There was a new development that complicated the matter"
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Overall, the approach to assessment is straightforwardly simple and there appears little need to complexify the matter although more detail is available elsewhere (Azibo, 2014a, 42-46, 2016a, in review a).
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In his book, Stefaniak seeks to complexify the commonly held conception of Schumann as an antivirtuoso polemicist, claiming that his distaste for frivolity and showmanship was only part of Schumann's attitudes about virtuosity.
In this section we drop the reality conditions and complexify all coordinates.
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And what about a poetic spirit like Thoreau, whose very mantra was "simplify, simplify," not "complexify, complexify" or it's not poetry.
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