simplify
verb/ˈsɪmpləˌfaɪ/
Frequency rank: #8,053 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
to make something easier to understand or do
Example sentence
The teacher asked her students to simplify the equation before solving it.
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