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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