convolute
IPA: kˈɑnvʌɫut
verb
- (transitive) To make unnecessarily complex.
- (transitive) To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.
- (transitive) To confuse, mix up (something) with something else.
adjective
- Convoluted.
- (botany, of a leaf) Coiled such that one edge is inside, and one outside the coil, giving a spiral effect in cross section.
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Examples of "convolute" in Sentences
- A more practical solution, however, turned out to be something called a convolute
- I never play a song the same way twice, and my music doesn ' t disguise the melody or reshape it or convolute it so that it ' s unrecognizable.
- I mean completely authentic Mark III H-1s with single axis rolling convolute waist joints, and vintage Skylab A7Ls with micrometeoroid cover layers.
- Fans who do want to see Jason in graduate school or Maggie in the office can turn to fan fiction instead of pressuring the creators to convolute the sources.
- A few times the story pirouettes on its tail to further convolute the proceedings, but a happy reader will lap up every progressive revelation with a grin of joy.
- You can divert, rationalize, convolute, and obscure the minor details to your heart's content but one irrefutable fact remains: Cheney misinterpreted the powers of his office and directed officials of the CIA to illegally withhold crucial operational information from Congress.
- The support cast is a bit more steroetyped than usual (I expected Peter Lorre to appear at any moment), but no one will care as the audience obtains a deep look at 1940s Londoners sacrificing for the war cause while the two cops work a case in which every clue they uncover seems to complicate and convolute the investigation.
- Ironically, I think this choice illustrates the ‘appalling’ inconvenient truth that politics itself, not merit, does indeed often determine who wins in real, if not American movie, life; that ulterior motives and surface features can and do, at the same time, in contradictory sorts of ways, convolute to bequeath value, and trump substance.
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