Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - oversimplify
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Oversimplify
oversimplify
(oversimplifies, oversimplifying, oversimplified) If you say that someone is oversimplifying something, you mean that they are describing or explaining it so simply that what they say is no longer true or reasonable. One should not oversimplify the situation... VERB: V n • oversimplified ...an oversimplified view of mathematics and the sciences. ADJ: usu ADJ n • oversimplification (oversimplifications) There is an old saying that ‘we are what we eat’. Obviously this is an oversimplification. N-VAR
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Date: 1923 transitive verb to simplify to such an extent as to bring about distortion, misunderstanding, or error intransitive verb to engage in undue or extreme simplification • oversimplification noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (also absol.) distort (a problem etc.) by stating it in too simple terms. Derivatives oversimplification n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. излишне упрощать; понимать слишком упрощенно to oversimplify matters —- слишком упрощать дело ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v to make a situation or problem seem less complicated than it really is, by ignoring important facts (My research has been grossly oversimplified in your account.) - oversimplification n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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