facilitate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: facilitate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for facilitate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
facilitate v make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge" Synonym(s): facilitate, ease, alleviate be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents" Synonym(s): help, facilitate increase the likelihood of (a response); "The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facilitate \Facil"itate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Facilitated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Facilitating}.] [Cf. F. faciliter. See {Facility}.] To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. --I. Taylor.