Complicate vs Puzzle - What's the difference?
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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:
Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
A game for one person that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
A crossword puzzle.
A jigsaw puzzle.
A riddle.
(archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
(label) To perplex (someone).
* (Henry More) (1614-1687)
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
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* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* (William Cowper) (1731-1800)
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In transitive terms the difference between complicate and puzzle
is that complicate is to expose involvement in a convoluted matter while puzzle is to perplex (someone).As an adjective complicate
is intertwined.As a noun puzzle is
anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.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!
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* * ----puzzle
English
(wikipedia puzzle)Noun
(en noun)- Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.
- to be in a puzzle
Synonyms
* (anything difficult to understand or make sense of ): anybody's guess, anyone's guess, conundrum, enigma, mystery * (game for one person ): brain-teaser, poser * (crossword puzzle ): crossword, crossword puzzle * (''jigsaw puzzle): jigsaw, jigsaw puzzle * (riddle ): guessing game, riddleDerived terms
* Chinese puzzle * crossword puzzle * jigsaw puzzle * monkey puzzle * puzzle out * puzzle over * puzzled * puzzlement * puzzler * puzzlingVerb
(puzzl)- A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others, if they be not thoroughpaced speculators in those great theories.
- He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
- The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, / Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.
- They disentangle from the puzzled skein.