| VERB | change | simplify | make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent |
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| Sounds | sih'mplahfay. | |
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| Rhymes | acidify ... vilify: 78 rhymes with fay... | |
| 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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| Narrower | oversimplify | make too simple |
| reduce | make less complex | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Opposite | complicate, perplex | make more complicated |
| Spanish | simplificar | |
| Catalan | simplificar | |
| Nouns | simplification | elimination of superfluous details |
| simplification | the act of reducing complexity | |
| simplification | an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity | |
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