complicar
compound ; tangle.
This heterogeneity of object, function, and relation is compounded by imprecision due to indirectness of access and to indefiniteness of need.
The more unsuccessful she was the more bitter she became, and the more tangled in the web drawn about her by her husband and children.
complicar las cosas
make + things complex
add + salt to the wound
add + salt to injury
add + insult to injury
rub + salt in the wound
If a sort facility is required, for instance, it will make things complex if authors are entered as: JOHN HUNT ERIC SMITH etc. = Si, por ejemplo, se necesita una herramienta para la ordenación, las cosas se complicarán si los autores se introduce del siguiente modo: JOHN HUNT ERIC SMITH etc.
To add salt to the wound, weaknesses and vulnerabilities in computers have grown over 4 times in the past two years.
Retailers are just adding salt to injury by rack up the price even more.
It seems McDonalds are seeking to add insult to injury by negotiating directly with non-union staff.
He even rubbed salt in the wound when he indicated that Obama could turn on that 'Negro dialect' whenever it suited his demagogic purposes.
complicar la situación
cloud + the issue
confuse + the issue
Against a background of the southern caste system and negative attitudes to Black education, disagreements among Black leaders tended to cloud the issues.
In the instance quoted Dr Cole begins well as shown above but later in his discussion confuses the issue so much that one is left with the feeling that it is hardly an important topic to discuss.
complicarse
thicken
Though the novel begins like a house ablaze, it later thickens slightly into an acceptable if uninspiring finale.
complicarse las cosas
be hung up on
As for the question of main entry, I think we're hung up on the terminology.
complicarse la vida
ask for + trouble
Systematically throwing in other resources that don't behave like documents and are not used as such is asking for trouble.
complicar un problema
compound + a problem
Such solutions after repeated application cause the catalog to become a clumsy, inefficient tool, and serve only to compound future problems.
para complicar aun más las cosas
to add to the confusion
To add to the confusion, other researchers have detected pleasure-sensing regions in a completely different part of the brain and that dopamine is not responsible for the pleasure response.