recomplicate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ complicate

Verb[edit]

recomplicate (third-person singular simple present recomplicates, present participle recomplicating, simple past and past participle recomplicated)

  1. (transitive) To complicate again or anew.
    • 2007 August 13, Roberta Smith, “Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies”, in New York Times[1]:
      Both tendencies enabled her to be one of a small group of painters — including Philip Guston, Frank Stella and Brice Marden — who during the 1970s rebuilt the medium from scratch, recomplicating and expanding its parameters and proving that it was still ripe for innovation, in part because of its rich history.

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