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  • verb Present participle of plicate.

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Examples

  • Com-plicating matters, the increasing heat was making the rock itself almost too hot to touch.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • The intense green radiance was entirely cool, allowing sup-plicating stone masters to touch the product of their ef-forts with impunity.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • The individual specimens had melted into one, du-plicating the reaction Fawn had described previously.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • Besides com-plicating internal communications, separating the new-comers from their own kind could only enforce their sense of isolation.

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • Expensive hobbies like exotic horse breeding or du - plicating the Hanging Gardens of Babylon would have to wait until the palace was complete.

    Juxtaposition Anthony, Piers 1982

  • Expensive hobbies like exotic horse breeding or du - plicating the Hanging Gardens of Babylon would have to wait until the palace was complete.

    Juxtaposition Anthony, Piers 1982

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