simplify
verb (used with object)
to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier.
simplified
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past participleof simplify.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof simplify.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
simplifyverb (used with object)to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier.
Example Sentences
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But the EcoBoost doesn’t feel simplified or bona fide so much as it feels ancient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Mainstream economists may want you to believe all this is driven by Darwinian forces that follow some natural law, simplified as “the cost of doing business,” or even by Adam Smith’s invisible hand.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
For Ikra Altumsek, and many other Turkish tourists, a visa-on-arrival scheme to visit several of Greece's Aegean islands has greatly simplified travel to this corner of the EU, previously off-limits without a hard-to-get Schengen visa.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
And it involves careful assembly, simplified by the free guide supplied with the kit.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
A topological map is a very simplified map, not to scale, so with no relation to the real distances.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
