dumbsomethingdown
phrasal verbwithdumbverbuk/dʌm/us/dʌm/
informaldisapprovingto make somethingsimplerandeasierforpeopletounderstand,especiallyinorderto make it morepopular:
Themediawasaccusedof dumbing down theissue.
Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
- abstract
- anti-reductionism
- anti-reductionist
- broad brush
- broaden
- enlarge on/uponsomething
- expand
- expand onsomething
- expansively
- expansiveness
- overgeneralization
- overgeneralize
- oversimplification
- oversimplify
- predigested
- specificity
- specify
- split hairsidiom
- standardization
- standardize