Complex
Complex verb - To make complex or difficult.
Usage example: there's no need to complex what should be a simple process for obtaining a building permit
Simplify
Simplify verb - To make less complex.
Usage example: you need to simplify this process somewhat or you'll never finish it today
Both words in one sentence
- It's revealed that Pilot language is so fantastically dense and complex that translator microbes just give up on it until they simplify their sentences.
Source: His Name Really Is "Barkeep" -
In Daughter of the Drow the protagonist saw her emotions messed up and the relationship with a young man growing too complex, so she tried to simplify both.
Source: Do You Want to Copulate? - Some adaptations take a complex character or situation and greatly simplify it, removing elements the producer believed to be unnecessary.
Source: Adaptation Distillation
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