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Ease

noun
1.
Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.  Synonyms: easiness, simpleness, simplicity.  "They put it into containers for ease of transportation" , "The very easiness of the deed held her back"  Antonym: difficulty.
2.
A freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state.  Synonym: comfort.  "He had all the material comforts of this world"
3.
The condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress).  Synonym: relief.  "Getting it off his conscience gave him some ease"
4.
Freedom from constraint or embarrassment.  Synonym: informality.
5.
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility).  Synonyms: relaxation, repose, rest.
verb
(past & past part. eased; pres. part. easing)
1.
Move gently or carefully.
2.
Lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate.  Synonym: comfort.
3.
Make easier.  Synonyms: alleviate, facilitate.
4.
Lessen the intensity of or calm.  Synonyms: allay, relieve, still.  "Still the fears"



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"Ease" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dravikine saw to it that her nephew came in contact with those people who could be useful to him; and she was satisfied, if slightly surprised, to see the ease with which he talked. Ivan himself wondered that he felt so little embarrassment in entering into the mood of the hour, and, while he talked, drank a great many cups of tea, each of which contained a considerable quantity of rum. But all the time he kept an eye over ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... pictured ideas on the subject have gone the rounds of the illustrated press, but they all sink into insignificance when tested beside the trap we here present. It has no equal among mole traps, and it can be made with the utmost ease and without cost. The principle on which it works is the same as the Fish Trap ...
— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson
... of his employer with an air of confidence which he did not feel. Knowing his own guilt, he felt ill at ease and nervous; but the crisis had come and he must ...
— Helping Himself • Horatio Alger
... little black Tent (of what stuff is not much importing)," says the Ambassador, "which he can suddenly set up where he will in a Field; and it is convertible (like a windmill) to all quarters at pleasure; capable of not much more than one man, as I conceive, and perhaps at no great ease; exactly close and dark,—save at one hole, about an inch and a half in the diameter, to which he applies a long perspective Trunk, with the convex glass fitted to the said hole, and the concave taken out ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718 • Thomas Carlyle
... at his ease in the lofty dining-room of the handsome house of Penarrow, which he owed to the enterprise of his father of lamented and lamentable memory and to the skill and invention of an Italian engineer named Bagnolo who had come to England half a century ago as one of the ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini


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