oversimplify

[ UK /ˌə‍ʊvəsˈɪmplɪfˌa‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /oʊvɝˈsɪmpɫɪˌfaɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. simplify to an excessive degree
    Don't oversimplify the problem
  2. make too simple
    Don't oversimplify the instructions
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How To Use oversimplify In A Sentence

  • And again -- to oversimplify all the books mentioned (and not mentioned) as preachy, stereotypical and filled with ebonics, is truly offensive ... Debating Black Books
  • But to claim that the administration is running the country is grossly to oversimplify the real situation. The Government and Politics of France
  • And it is all too easy in such gatherings to oversimplify issues, to applaud our own outlook, and to dismiss the opinions of others, sometimes with more than a trace of sarcasm.
  • To be sure, the Kagans still overblow the political progress made by the Maliki government and oversimplify the intraShi'ite power struggle -- and are blithely innocent about the role of the Iranians in calming things down in Basra and Sadr city, but they are right about one important thing: the military situation in Iraq has improved so much that normally sober and pessimistic military and intelligence sorts are simply stunned. Progress in Iraq…and What To Do About It - Swampland - TIME.com
  • Don't oversimplify the instructions
  • He's clearly oversimplifying, but Fallon says the orbital cortex puts a brake on another part of the brain called the amygdala, which is involved with aggression and appetites. NPR Topics: News
  • To oversimplify, then, Galileo's telescopic observations of remote surfaces and of appearances he knew to be illusions were revelatory in a way that the Linceans' microscopic scrutiny of matters at hand could not be.
  • To describe all these people as refugees is to oversimplify the situation.
  • I'm also oversimplifying, but that's okay, because I'm not a phonologist or a phonetician.
  • There is reason to counter that such charges often oversimplify what each of them means by rational activity as well as the large share that both grant to passion in activating, directing, and facilitating rational enquiry. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
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