Snoop vs Complicate - What's the difference?
snoop | complicate |
To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
The act of snooping
One who snoops
A private detective
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 snoop and complicate
is that snoop is to be devious and cunning so as not to be seen 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 a noun snoop
is the act of snooping.As an adjective complicate is
(obsolete) intertwined.snoop
English
Verb
(en verb)- If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.
Noun
(en noun)- Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop .
- She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.
References
* 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988Anagrams
* *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!
