simplify

Verb

Verb Forms: simplified, simplifying, simplifies

• To make something easier to do or understand.
• make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent
  • "We had to simplify the instructions"
  • "this move will simplify our lives"
• To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
• To become simpler.

Examples

• Good Scrabble players learn to simplify complex board states into clearer options.

Synonyms

decomplexify, decomplicate, uncomplicate

Antonyms

complicate