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convolute

verb as in make complicated

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The best rom-coms from the early 2000s are the ones that recognize that no matter how convoluted the plot may be, the love story has to be relatable.

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The two first have zigzag passages; the third, channels running in convolute curves.

The passages here run in convolute curves, the one winding in a spiral to the centre, the other receding from the centre.

They resemble the Ammonites in internal structure, but instead of being spirally convolute they are merely curved like a horn.

The more decidedly convolute species with hidden spires are the Atys, Montf.

A spiral shell is said to be discoidal, when the whorls are so horizontally convolute as to form a flattened spire.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to convolute, such as: cloud, coil, contort, loop, snaking, and spiral.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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