profundicate

发音

/pɹəˈfʌndɪˌkeɪt/

词形变化

profundicated profundicates 三单 profundicates profundicating profundicating 现在分词 profundicated 过去式 profundicated 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.

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词源

Latin profundus (“profound”) + -icate. Apparently coined by American humorist James Boren (1925–2010) in When in Doubt, Mumble: A Bureaucrat's Handbook, New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972, →OCLC.

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