dumb down
Third Person
dumbs down
Present Participle
dumbing down
Past Tense
dumbed down
Past Participle
dumbed down
1
to simplify or reduce the intellectual content of something in order to make it more accessible or appealing to a wider audience
- The teacher decided to dumb down the lesson so that all students could grasp the concepts.
- The author rewrote the scientific article, hoping to dumb it down for a general readership.
- The presentation was initially too technical, so they had to dumb it down for the non-expert audience.
- The software interface was dumbed down to make it user-friendly for beginners.
- The complex jargon in the manual was dumbed down to help customers troubleshoot issues on their own.