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Meanings of convoluted in English

Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.

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Rolled longitudinally upon itself.

Convoluted.

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Usage of convoluted in English
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But that also means treatment options are based on more convoluted information.
Reuters
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Is that a needlessly convoluted way to hear a new Jay-Z album?
Wired
3
Which is all a very convoluted way of answering your initial question.
Beyond The Frontier: Invincible
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Perhaps the concept of one-dimensional length is simply ill-suited for convoluted coastlines.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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He's talking about the convoluted financial and operating structure of the business.
The Irish Times
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This convoluted command script attempts to link a set of object files.
Managing projects with gnu make, 3rd edition
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It was a long, convoluted investigation, requiring subterfuge on both their parts.
Map of bones
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It may feel quite convoluted, but it can be unraveled with tact!
The South African
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But a troublesome anomaly has become apparent in the convoluted four-tier process.
The Irish Times
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He was acutely aware of the convoluted atomic structure of the hull.
The dark side of the sun
11
Also read: Irrelevant Currie Cup is the fall guy in convoluted season
The South African
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His shield was darker than most, and the thoughts below were convoluted.
The evolutionary void
13
The convoluted plot revolves around the efforts of ambitious TV reporter C.J.
Reuters
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Getting the files in to the iPad is a tad convoluted, though.
Reuters
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Clearly a shell corporation, and the trail gets more convoluted after that.
The bourne objective
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They weren't flesh and blood when they passed through this convoluted way-station.
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Convoluted across language varieties
Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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