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- verb Present participle of
plicate .
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Examples
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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
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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
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The individual specimens had melted into one, du-plicating the reaction Fawn had described previously.
The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997
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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
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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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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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