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say it: SIM-pluh-fahy
simplify is a verb meaning "make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent". It carries one recorded sense.
make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent
“We had to simplify the instructions”
“this move will simplify our lives”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for simplify come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.