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fa·cil·i·tate  audio  (f-sl-tt) KEY 

TRANSITIVE VERB:
fa·cil·i·tat·ed, fa·cil·i·tat·ing, fa·cil·i·tates
To make easy or easier: political agreements that facilitated troop withdrawals.

ETYMOLOGY:
French faciliter, from Old French, from Italian facilitare, from facile, facile, from Latin facilis ; see facile

OTHER FORMS:
fa·cili·tative  (-ttv) KEY (Adjective), fa·cili·tator(Noun)


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