ease
IPA: ˈiz
noun
- Ability, the means to do something
- Skill, dexterity, facility.
- Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from difficulty.
- Freedom from effort, leisure, rest.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
- Relief, an end to discomfort
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
- (euphemistic, obsolete) Release from intestinal discomfort: defecation.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- (clothing) Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- (obsolete) A convenience; a luxury.
- (obsolete) A relief; an easement.
verb
- (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- (transitive) To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- (transitive) To give respite to (someone).
- (nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- (transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- (transitive) To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- (intransitive) To lessen in intensity.
- (intransitive) To proceed with little effort.
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Examples of "ease" in Sentences
- The euro eases trade in the Eurozone.
- It needs the ease of orderly expectations.
- Carefully ease the vine from the container.
- Easing the embargo is not a cease of the blockade.
- That's a disadvantage of the speed and ease of twinkle.
- Where I think Macs have the upper hand is in ease of use.
- The sancharas covered the octaves with ease and geniality.
- He explained the beauty and ease in the colloquial telugu.
- Additionally, the ease of mobility creates an inherent exigency.
- Her professionalism and ease in front of the camera are outstanding.
- "Her ease is poetic," reviewer Elvis Mitchell wrote of Ms. Stuart in 1997.
- They are "at ease," but as I am "sore displeased" with them, their ease is accursed.
- She replied, ‘Can aught befal me worse than death which indeed I seek, for by Allah, my ease is therein?’
- The trouble is the Internet has made it too easy to contact people and that ease translates to inherent laziness.
- Having used both a snow blower and a standard shovel, I would put the wovel squarely between the two in ease of use.
- You ask how does it ease is simple that if there missle goes wrong and hits US protected anything they are within range to strike.
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