historizes

Example:He decided to complicate the issue rather than simply explain it to the students.

Definition:To make something more confusing or difficult to understand by adding extra or unnecessary elements.

Example:The film complicates the past by introducing fictional elements that distort the historical truth.

Definition:To make historical events more confusing or difficult to understand by adding unnecessary elements.

Example:The historian's efforts to historize the data were opposed by those who wanted to recontextualize the findings to fit their own interpretation.

Definition:To place (a statement, course of events, etc.) within a different context or frame or in different terms than was previously done, the opposite of historizing in this sense.