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SIMPLIFY (simplified)

Pronunciation (US):

• SIMPLIFY (verb)
The verb SIMPLIFY has 1 sense:

1. make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent

Familiarity information: SIMPLIFY used as a verb is very rare.

• SIMPLIFY (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context examples:

We had to simplify the instructions / this move will simplify our lives

Hypernyms (to "simplify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "simplify"):

reduce (make less complex)

oversimplify (make too simple)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

complicate (make more complicated)

"Jack of all trades, master of none."
(English proverb)
"Good remains are nice to have."
(Breton proverb)
"Smoke of the neighbours renders you blind"
(Arabic proverb)
"Away from the eye, out of the heart."
(Dutch proverb)

Useful links:
Meaning of alter
Pronunciation of reduce
Meaning of modify
Pronunciation of oversimplify
Meaning of complicate

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