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decomplexify en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + complexify.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To rid of complexity; to simplify.
    • There are no non-destructive ways to decomplexify complex systems, and the legal framework is one such system. 2011, Dmitry Orlov, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects, page 184:
    • Though much of what I have to say emphasises the risky and vulnerable forward-looking nature of this enterprise, its reflexivity and refusal to decomplexify, this is not to say that it is incompatible with law. 2007, Scott Veitch, Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, page 49:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
decomplexifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
decomplexifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
decomplexified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
decomplexified Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

complexify · complexification · complexifying · complex · complexity · complexified · decomplexified · decomplexifying · decomplexification

Synonyms

simplify § Synonyms