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Ease up   /iz əp/   Listen
Ease up

verb
1.
Move in order to make room for someone for something.  Synonyms: give, give way, move over, yield.  "'Move over,' he told the crowd"
2.
Become less intense.  Synonyms: ease off, flag, slacken off.
3.
Reduce pressure or intensity.  Synonyms: ease off, let up.






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"Ease up" Quotes from Famous Books



... prepared to carry it out. Nebbie awoke with a start from his doze to see his master on the move, and quickly trotted after him across the lawn to the river. Here, the sole occupant of the shining stream was a maternal swan, white as a cloud on the summit of Mont Blanc, floating in stately ease up and down the water, carrying her young brood of cygnets on her back, under the snowy curve of her arching wings. Walden unchained the punt and sprang into it,—Nebbie dutifully following,—and then divested himself of his coat. He was just about to take the punting ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

... a walk, the two of you. God knows I'm a good Catholic, but there's some things—get out, the two of you! Let your nerves ease up a bit. Sure we all pound and twang like a wet ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow

... on pretty steadily for a bit, after this, and then it all at once occurs to one of them that she will pin up her frock, and they ease up for the purpose, and ...
— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome



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