Meaning | make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Examples | - "We had to simplify the instructions"
- "this move will simplify our lives"
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Narrower | oversimplify | make too simple |
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reduce | make less complex |
Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
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Opposite | complicate, perplex | make more complicated |
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Spanish | simplificar |
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Catalan | simplificar |
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Nouns | simplification | elimination of superfluous details |
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simplification | the act of reducing complexity |
simplification | an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity |