verb
- to make complicated or difficult to understand; to perplex or confuse
Usage: archaic or rare; primarily found in older or literary texts
Examples
- The dense legal language complects the contract for most readers.
- His contradictory statements complect the investigation.
- She did not wish to complect matters further with unnecessary details.
- The multiple variables complect the mathematical problem.
- Regional dialects complect communication between the two groups.