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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simplify \Sim"pli*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Simplified; p. pr. & vb. n. Simplifying.] [Cf. F. simplifier, LL. simplificare. See Simple, and -fy.] To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.
The collection of duties is drawn to a point, and so
far simplified.
--A. Hamilton.
It is important, in scientific pursuits, to be caitious
in simplifying our deductions.
--W.
Nicholson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French simplifier "to make simpler" (15c.), from Medieval Latin simplificare "to simplify," from Latin simplex "simple" (see simplex) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Meaning "to make easier to do" is from 1759. Related: Simplified; simplifying.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand. 2 To become simpler.
WordNet
v. make simpler or easier or reduce in complxity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives" [ant: complicate]
[also: simplified]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "simplify".
Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed.
He was quite sure that Major Berman had simplified the whole affair beyond reason.
But she soon had it reasoned out that her preconceptions in this regard were no doubt due to the stylizing nature of the mythopoeic process itself, which simplified character and motive just as it compressed time and space, so that one imagined Perseus to be speeding tirelessly and thoughtlessly from action to bravura action, when in fact he must have weeks of idleness, hours of indecision, et cetera.
To simplify matters, let us suppose a human being is a parallelepiped who is 170 centimeters tall, 35 centimeters wide and 25 centimeters thick.
I have ruthlessly simplified addresses and allowed a patronymic to appear only when the context absolutely demanded it.
As they came into being and vanished they traced precalculated paths which duplicated, in a simplified way, the thinking cells of the human brain.
Kate Croy assisted with the cool controlled facility that went so well, as the others said, with her particular kind of good looks, the kind that led you to expect the person enjoying them WOULD dispose of disputations, speculations, aspirations, in a few very neatly and brightly uttered words, so simplified in sense, however, that they sounded, even when guiltless, like rather aggravated slang.
As she sat there with her hands folded on her knees, her eyes bent down, and the purple flowers all about her, she felt simplified and cleansed, as if a mass of little things had been swept from her, leaving space for the great thing that henceforth must for ever dwell within her and dominate her life.
THE first time I was in Egypt a Simplified Spelling epidemic had broken out and the atmosphere was electrica with feeling engendered by the subject.
So also was the Simplified Committee, with Croesus as foreman of the Revolt -- not a large man physically, but a Simplified speller of acknowledged ability.
There is a memorandum of a pamphlet on simplified spelling which I cannot identify or trace.
Carlotta had already begun the next step in her simplified explanation, but now she paused in midword, derailed by surprise.
Albert Einstein developed his theory of relativity and gravitation, he and others used it in the second decade of this century to provide simplified theoretical models of the whole universe.
Whenever it is a question of thinking about the world or of practically modifying it, men can only work on a symbolic plan of the universe, only a simplified, two-dimensional map of things abstracted by the mind out of the complex and multifarious reality of immediate intuition.
The simplified model of music explains each component of music in terms of one primary aspect of music perception.