Complicate vs Bewilder - What's the difference?
complicate | bewilder | Related terms |
To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
to expose involvement in a convoluted matter.
(obsolete) Intertwined.
Complex, complicated.
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(label) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
(label) To disorientate someone.
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Complicate is a related term of bewilder.
As verbs the difference between complicate and bewilder
is that complicate is to fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult while bewilder is (label) to confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.As an adjective complicate
is (obsolete) intertwined.complicate
English
Verb
(complicat)- Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your education.
- John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.
- The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.
Synonyms
* (expose involvement in a convoluted matter) intricate, entangle, embroil, mix up (in something), mireSee also
* complexAdjective
(en adjective)- How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate , how wonderful, is Man!
