Usually means: Reduce complexity to basic essence.
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  1. essentialize: Merriam-Webster
  2. essentialize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. essentialize: Collins English Dictionary
  4. essentialize: Wiktionary
  5. essentialize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. essentialize: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. essentialize: Dictionary.com
  8. essentialize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (essentialize)

verb:  (transitive) To reduce (something) to its essence.
verb:  (transitive) To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence.
verb:  (transitive) To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to the whole (that is, implying that it defines the whole's essence).

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