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Definition of facilitate : 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.

Synonyms:

palliate, fix, help oneself, avail, alleviate, allay, press forward, dream up, map out, smooth, draw up, organize, unclog, speed, make easy, drive, still, urge, grease the wheels, orchestrate, assuage, make haste, comfort, urge on, finalize, think ahead, grease, despatch, easy, plan, loosen, arrange, drive on

implement

hurry, further, promote, quicken, expedite, hasten, advance, accelerate

conciliate, mediate, adjudicate, reconcile, intervene, compromise, arbitrate, parley, intercede, negotiate

use, utilize

commission, empower, authorize, allow, enable, permit, license

ease, simplify

endow, benefit, serve, motivate, mother, aid, fund, abet, encourage, foster, sustain, minister, help, assist, tend, relieve, support, attend

Usage examples:

• They soon met, in a retired part of the way, a stranger, armed according to the custom of the times, and mounted upon a very magnificent steed, which had been prepared for him to facilitate his escape after the accomplishment of the fell deed. - "Henry IV, Makers of History", John S. C. Abbott.
• Where the road crossed the stream deep approaches had been dug into the banks in order to facilitate the passage of conveyances- a " drift" it is called in South Africa- and on either side for a distance of a mile, up and down the stream, the burghers stood by their horses and waited for the coming of the day. - "With the Boer Forces", Howard C. Hillegas.
• We suggested that systematic arrangements would not only facilitate our labor, but would lessen his own task. - "In Indian Mexico (1908)", Frederick Starr.