Usually means: Simplifying content excessively, reducing complexity.
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  1. dumbing down: Merriam-Webster
  2. dumbing down: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dumbing-down: Wordnik
  4. dumbing down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. dumbing down: Wiktionary
  6. Dumbing down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. dumbing down: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Dumbing down: Legal dictionary

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  1. Dumbing down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dumbing down: Medical dictionary

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  1. dumbing down: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, cinema, news, video games, and culture.

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