simplify
/ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/ verb B1- To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
- To become simpler.
He/she/it simplifies · Past simplified · Past participle simplified · -ing form simplifying
Verb forms
- Base form
- simplify
- He/she/it
- simplifies
- Past
- simplified
- Past participle
- simplified
- -ing form
- simplifying
From the library
“You’re sure it doesn’t simplify them?” observed Holmes.
“I think that if you would take the trouble of reflecting, you could find a way of simplifying the negotiation,” said Franz.
In this case the matter was simplified by Brunton’s intelligence being quite first-rate, so that it was unnecessary to make any allowance for the personal equation, as the astronomers have dubbed it.
It may do something to simplify what followed.
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