Obstruct vs Complicate - What's the difference?
obstruct | complicate |
To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block.
To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder: obstructed my progress.
To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
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.
* 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , I:
As verbs the difference between obstruct and complicate
is that obstruct is to block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle see synonyms at block while complicate is to fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.As an adjective complicate is
(obsolete) intertwined.obstruct
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* See alsocomplicate
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!