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Facilitate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make easy or easier: political agreements that facilitated troop withdrawals.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make easy or easier.

v. To help bring about

v. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make easy; render less difficult; free wholly or partially from difficulty or impediment; lessen the labor of: as, to facilitate learning by suitable appliances.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make easier

v. increase the likelihood of (a response)

v. be of use

Word Usage

"What research has shown though is that the interruptions that emails and phone calls facilitate affect our ability to remember things."

Verb Form

facilitated facilitates facilitating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

help assist aid cause do make serve

Form

facilitated facilitating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

aid ease

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

debilitate rehabilitate