SIMPLIFY (simplified)

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Irregular inflected form: simplified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does simplify mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIMPLIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they simplify    ... he / she / it simplifies   
Past simple: simplified   
Past participle: simplified   
-ing form: simplifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

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)

Derivation:

simplification (the act of reducing complexity)

simplification (elimination of superfluous details)

simplification (an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity)

 Context examples 

Thus restrained and simplified, it sounded more credible: I felt as I went on that Miss Temple fully believed me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A team of scientists of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) set out to develop a simplified treatment with fewer antibodies by generating mAbs from human survivors of Ebola virus disease.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

Due to the complexity and computing power required to address hazes, models used to understand exoplanet spectra usually simplify their effects.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

It may do something to simplify what followed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You see, remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of the house, this marriage rather simplifies matters.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It might have simplified my office very much, if I had known it before. But I confess I entertained another impression.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Such will, of course, immensely simplify our labour, and the sooner the matter is attended to the better.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

'Careful examination of the actual inspection strategies used by animals might reveal that they often employ active scanning behaviors as shortcuts to simplify complex visual pattern discrimination tasks,'

(Scientists Discover Bees Can Count Using Only Four Brain Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

EJB technology enables rapid and simplified development of distributed, transactional, secure and portable applications based on Java technology.

(Enterprise Java Bean, NCI Thesaurus)

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.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)