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ease
[ eez ]
noun
- freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
to enjoy one's ease.
Synonyms: effortlessness, contentment, repose
Antonyms: effort, discomfort
- freedom from concern, anxiety, or solicitude; a quiet state of mind:
to be at ease about one's health.
Synonyms: calmness, peace, serenity, tranquility
Antonyms: disturbance
- freedom from difficulty or great effort; facility:
It can be done with ease.
- freedom from financial need; plenty:
a life of ease on a moderate income.
- freedom from stiffness, constraint, or formality; unaffectedness:
ease of manner;
the ease and elegance of her poetry.
Synonyms: naturalness, informality
verb (used with object)
- to free from anxiety or care:
to ease one's mind.
Synonyms: soothe, tranquilize, disburden, relieve, comfort
- to mitigate, lighten, or lessen:
to ease pain.
- to release from pressure, tension, or the like.
- to move or shift with great care:
to ease a car into a narrow parking space.
- to render less difficult; facilitate:
I'll help if it will ease your job.
- to provide (an architectural member) with an easement.
- Shipbuilding. to trim (a timber of a wooden hull) so as to fair its surface into the desired form of the hull.
- Nautical.
- to bring (the helm or rudder of a vessel) slowly amidships.
- to bring the head of (a vessel) into the wind.
- to slacken or lessen the hold upon (a rope).
- to lessen the hold of (the brake of a windlass).
verb (used without object)
- to abate in severity, pressure, tension, etc. (often followed by off or up ).
- to become less painful, burdensome, etc.
- to move, shift, or be moved or be shifted with great care.
verb phrase
- to remove from a position of authority, a job, or the like, especially by methods intended to be tactful:
He was eased out as division head to make way for the boss's nephew.
ease
/ iːz /
noun
- freedom from discomfort, worry, or anxiety
- lack of difficulty, labour, or awkwardness; facility
- rest, leisure, or relaxation
- freedom from poverty or financial embarrassment; affluence
a life of ease
- lack of restraint, embarrassment, or stiffness
his ease of manner disarmed us
- at easemilitary
- (of a standing soldier, etc) in a relaxed position with the feet apart and hands linked behind the back
- a command to adopt such a position
- in a relaxed attitude or frame of mind
verb
- to make or become less burdensome
- tr to relieve (a person) of worry or care; comfort
- tr to make comfortable or give rest to
- tr to make less difficult; facilitate
- to move or cause to move into, out of, etc, with careful manipulation
to ease a car into a narrow space
- whenintr, often foll by off or up to lessen or cause to lessen in severity, pressure, tension, or strain; slacken, loosen, or abate
- ease oneself or ease nature archaic.to urinate or defecate
- ease the helmnautical to relieve the pressure on the rudder of a vessel, esp by bringing the bow into the wind
Derived Forms
- ˈeaser, noun
Other Words From
- self-ease noun
- self-easing adjective
- well-eased adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of ease1
Idioms and Phrases
- at ease, Military. a position of rest in which soldiers may relax but may not leave their places or talk.
More idioms and phrases containing ease
- at ease
- ill at ease
- easily
- easy
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
That ease means that creators often have multiple Carrds under their belt, creating a sub-economy of design tips and art.
Cellebrite says it can “unlock devices with ease” by finding vulnerabilities in targeted smartphones and exploiting them.
“The ease with which companies can be incorporated under state law, and how little information is generally required about the company’s owners or activities, raises concerns about a lack of transparency,” the report said.
Unlike masks, which can fall off the ears, outdoor runners and cyclists enjoy the ease of pulling buffs up as they pass the occasional dog-walker or fellow jogger, and then down again once they’re alone.
Blow-by drives, where a player dribbles past a defender with ease, are also up slightly.
Normality, domesticity, ease, in the blazing Arizona desert.
As it stands, the deal will ease the travel ban and trade embargo, and make it easier for Americans to do business in Cuba.
This deal will greatly ease a travel ban and the trade embargo, and make it easier for Americans to do business in Cuba.
In no previous era in human history had one country ever completely dominated world finance with such ease.
She appears calmer, more at ease, since the last time I sat down with her in 2008.
Where the outside conditions are not very favourable, practically all the British species may be grown with ease under glass.
See the ease and grace of the lady in the sacque, who sits on the bank there, under the myrtles, with the guitar on her lap!
Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.
In this way it will be managed with less offense and with more ease to the conscience than now.
Uriah said it would dishonour him to seek ease and pleasure at home while other soldiers were enduring hardship at the front.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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