facilitate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make easier
    ease; alleviate.
    • you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge
  2. verb be of use
    help.
    • This will help to prevent accidents
  3. verb increase the likelihood of (a response)
    • The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse

WordNet

Fa*cil"i*tate transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. faciliter. See Facility.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Facilitated ; present participle & verbal noun Facilitating
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913