to facilitate

Examples

• All

• Now I try to plan activities that facilitate understanding across cultures and respect cultural differences.

  Academic text (2011)

• All participants received summer stipends to facilitate immersion in the summer research experience.

  Academic text (2011)

• We're we're there to facilitate you actually learning things.

• Your orders are to facilitate the job of this scientific team.

  Day of the Dead (1985)

• I need to obtain certain materials to facilitate the travel.

  Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

• And at the end of the day, my only job is to facilitate healing.

• If children already have a name for an object, does this facilitate or inhibit word learning?

  Academic text (2011)

• Questions were generally broad, designed to facilitate a process of language self-construction by participants.

  Academic text (2011)

• The Council is charged with facilitating the establishment and maintenance of an inclusive campus environment.

  Academic text (2011)

• The teacher is not a "sage on the stage," but rather one who facilitates, motivates, and encourages.

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

H

to help

vsto facilitate

∞ 1.0

To make a task or situation easier for someone

focuses on easing a process or enabling it to occur rather than broad aid

A

to assist

vsto facilitate

605 1.0

To help someone by making a task easier

makes the whole process easier or helps it happen rather than personal support

H

to help someone with

vsto facilitate

499 1.0

To do part of a task for someone who has trouble doing it

is about easing or enabling the overall process, not only person-focused aid

E

to enable

vsto facilitate

459 2.3

To give someone the ability or chance to do something

makes things easier or helps them happen without necessarily supplying means or power

H

to help with

vsto facilitate

438 1.0

To give someone support to do a task

applies more broadly to making processes easier or helping them proceed

E

to encourage

vsto facilitate

325 2.1

Help something grow or develop

is about removing difficulty or enabling an action directly rather than encouraging growth

E

to ease

vsto facilitate

305 2.1

To make something less painful or difficult

focuses more on enabling or helping a process happen than only easing pain

M

to make it possible

vsto facilitate

88 2.4

To allow someone or something to do what they could not before

emphasizes easing or aiding the process rather than strictly making it feasible

H

to help along

vsto facilitate

21 2.9

Make someone or something move forward faster

is similar but covers any action that makes the process easier or happen

Antonyms

H

to hinder

75 3.6

To make it difficult for people or things to do something

I

to impede

35 6.5

To slow the progress or movement of people and things

How Easy

to streamline

41 4.1

to expedite

• Formal

45 6.5

to enable

459 2.3

to facilitate

• Formal

187 4.9

help

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology