FACILITATE

facilitate, ease, alleviate

(verb) make easier; “you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge”

facilitate

(verb) increase the likelihood of (a response); “The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse”

help, facilitate

(verb) be of use; “This will help to prevent accidents”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

facilitate (third-person singular simple present facilitates, present participle facilitating, simple past and past participle facilitated)

To make easy or easier.

To help bring about.

To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

Synonyms

• (to make easy or easier): ease

Source: Wiktionary


Fa*cil"i*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Facilitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Facilitating.] Etym: [Cf. F. faciliter. See Facility.]

Definition: To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. I. Taylor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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