dumb (something) down

To make something less complicated to accommodate a less intelligent, educated, or sophisticated audience. The professor decided to dumb down the course material a bit after most of his class failed the first exam. I think we ought to dumb the play down a bit; after all, most of the people coming to see it won't have a PhD in drama.

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Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hanna (1)	HAHN-nah (Finnish, Polish, Ukrainian), HAH-nah (German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, Dutch, Icelandic, Hungar
Steffen	SHTE-fen (Low German)	Low German, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
Everett	['evərit]
Jens	YENS (Danish)	Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Balderston	['bɔ:ldəstəun]
Agafya	ah-GAH-fyah	Russian