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facilitate

verb
/fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/

Etymology

Anglicisation of French faciliter (“facilitate”) through -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin facilis.

  1. derived from facilis
  2. borrowed from faciliter

Definitions

  1. To make easy or easier.

    • The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.

  2. To help bring about.

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

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Derived

cofacilitate, disfacilitate, nonfacilitating, refacilitate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at facilitate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at facilitate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at facilitate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA