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sim·pli·fy

 (sĭm′plə-fī′)
tr.v. sim·pli·fied, sim·pli·fy·ing, sim·pli·fies
To make simple or simpler, as:
a. To reduce in complexity or extent.
b. To reduce to fundamental parts.
c. To make easier to understand.

[French simplifier, from Old French, from Medieval Latin simplificāre : Latin simplus, simple; see simple + Latin -ficāre, -fy.]

sim′pli·fi·ca′tion (-fĭ-kā′shən) n.
sim′pli·fi′er n.
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simplified

(ˈsɪmplɪfaɪd)
adj
1. made less complicated, clearer, or easier
2. (Mathematics) maths reduced to a simpler form by cancellation of common factors, regrouping of terms in the same variable, etc
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.simplified - made easy or uncomplicated
easy - posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma"
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Translations
مُبَسَّط
zjednodušený
forenklet
egyszerûsítettleegyszerûsített
einfaldaîur
zjednodušený
poenostavljen
basitleştirilmiş

simplified

[ˈsɪmplɪfaɪd] adj [version, account] → simplifié(e)
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simplified

adjvereinfacht
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simple

(ˈsimpl) adjective
1. not difficult; easy. a simple task.
2. not complicated or involved. The matter is not as simple as you think.
3. not fancy or unusual; plain. a simple dress/design; He leads a very simple life.
4. pure; mere. the simple truth.
5. trusting and easily cheated. She is too simple to see through his lies.
6. weak in the mind; not very intelligent. I'm afraid he's a bit simple, but he's good with animals.
ˈsimpleton (-tən) noun
a foolish person.
simplicity (simˈplisəti) noun
the state of being simple. The beauty of this idea is its simplicity; He answered with a child's simplicity.
ˌsimplifiˈcation noun
1. the process of making simpler.
2. something made simpler; a simpler form. The Americans have made some simplifications in English spelling.
ˈsimplified adjective
made less difficult or complicated. simplified language/tasks.
ˈsimplify (-plifai) verb
to make simpler. Can you simplify your language a little?
ˈsimply adverb
1. only. I do it simply for the money.
2. absolutely. simply beautiful.
3. in a simple manner. She was always very simply dressed.
ˌsimple-ˈminded adjective
of low intelligence; stupid.
ˌsimple-ˈmindedness noun
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We are camped near Temnin-el-Foka--a name which the boys have simplified a good deal, for the sake of convenience in spelling.
They stood out strengthened and simplified now, like the image of the plough against the sun.
Nor did he trouble his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule of interest being all comprised in the one golden sentence, 'two-pence for every half-penny,' which greatly simplified the accounts, and which, as a familiar precept, more easily acquired and retained in the memory than any known rule of arithmetic, cannot be too strongly recommended to the notice of capitalists, both large and small, and more especially of money-brokers and bill- discounters.
The levying of the taxes was simplified by a single classification of a great number of articles.
In the diagram the process is represented up to the ten-thousandth generation, and under a condensed and simplified form up to the fourteen-thousandth generation.
To look at the matter in this light simplified his own case and surprisingly furbished up all the dim domestic virtues.
The upshot of all these reasonings was, that his Highness the Prince Stadtholder of Holland would feel infinitely obliged to the magistracy of the Hague if they simplified for him the government of the Seven Provinces by destroying even the least germ of conspiracy against his authority.
Her position, which had seemed to her simplified the night before, suddenly struck her now as not only not simple, but as absolutely hopeless.
Thus restrained and simplified, it sounded more credible: I felt as I went on that Miss Temple fully believed me.
That is the well-beneficed point of view, you perceive, from which difficulties are much simplified," he ended, smiling.
Werper had not succeeded in arranging to tent with Mohammed Beyd, and so he revolved many plans for the assassination of the Arab that would have been greatly simplified had he been permitted to share the other's nightly shelter.
It was something of a simplified language that had no need for aught but nouns and verbs, but such words as it included were the same as those of the human beings of Pellucidar.

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