simplify (verb)

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• simplify — ► VERB (simplifies, simplified) ▪ make more simple. DERIVATIVES simplification noun …   English terms dictionary

• simplify — verb ADVERB ▪ considerably, greatly, radically, vastly ▪ The whole process has now been greatly simplified. ▪ The model must radically simplify a complex and changing world. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• simplify — I (clarify) verb clear up, elucidate, explain, make dear, make plain, unfold, untwist II (make easier) verb disentangle, make plain, streamline, uncomplicate, unravel III index clarify …   Law dictionary

• simplify past tense and past participle simplified — verb (T) to make something easier or less complicated: an attempt to simplify the tax laws | Try to simplify your explanation for the children. see also: oversimplify simplified adjective: a simplified version of Chinese script simplification /… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• simplify — verb a) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand. Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and… …   Wiktionary

• simplify — verb please simplify your answer Syn: make simple/simpler, make easy/easier to understand, make plainer, clarify, make more comprehensible/intelligible; paraphrase Ant: complicate …   Thesaurus of popular words

• simplify — verb (simplifies, simplifying, simplified) make more simple. Derivatives simplification noun …   English new terms dictionary

• simplify — verb Syn: make simpler, clarify, put into words of one syllable, streamline; informal dumb down Ant: complicate …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• simplify */ — UK [ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ] / US [ˈsɪmplɪˌfaɪ] verb [transitive] Word forms simplify : present tense I/you/we/they simplify he/she/it simplifies present participle simplifying past tense simplified past participle simplified 1) to make something less… …   English dictionary

• simplify — [[t]sɪ̱mplɪfaɪ[/t]] simplifies, simplifying, simplified VERB If you simplify something, you make it easier to understand or you remove the things which make it complex. [V n] The aim of the scheme is to simplify the complex social security system …   English dictionary

• simplify — transitive verb ( fied; fying) Etymology: French simplifier, from Medieval Latin simplificare, from simplus simple Date: 1759 to make simple or simpler: as a. to reduce to basic essentials b. to diminish in scope or complexity ; streamline < was… …   New Collegiate Dictionary