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convolute

verb

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To twist or coil together; figuratively, to make tangled or complicated.

Extra exceptions can convolute a rule that was originally easy to explain.
Dictionary practice example.
Repeated arrows threatened to convolute the otherwise useful sequence by sending readers back to stages they had already completed.
From Making an Explanation Work.
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