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dumb something down
phrasal verb with dumbverbuk /dʌm/ us /dʌm/
informaldisapproving
to make something simpler and easier for people to understand, especially in order to make it more popular: （尤指为了更加普及而）使…简化，将…通俗化
The media was accused of dumbing down the issue.人们指责媒体将这一问题简单化了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
abstract
anti-reductionism
anti-reductionist
broad brush
broaden
enlarge on/upon something
expand
expand on something
expansively
expansiveness
overgeneralization
overgeneralize
oversimplification
oversimplify
particularization
spec
specification
specificity
specify
split hairsidiom
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