facilitate
fuh-SIL-ih-taytverbMeaning to make an action or process easier
Memory hook FACIL-itate: make it FACILE, easy. Instead of dragging the heavy piano up the steps, the movers roll it up a ramp. The ramp facilitates the job: it makes it easier.
A ramp facilitated moving the piano into the house.
In context The new bridge will facilitate trade between the two towns; farmers who once spent a day driving around the lake will reach the market in an hour.
Similar ease, smooth, simplify, enable
Opposite hinder, hamper, impede
From French faciliter, from Latin facilis, “easy.”