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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"
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



... The ease and dispatch with which Germany succeeded in obtaining an enormously valuable strategic point in the rich province of Shangtung aroused the cupidity of rival nations, and they threw off all pretense to decency in their scramble for further territories. Russian ...
— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN
... obeyed. Then the sheriff made a speech; sitting his horse at martial ease, and not warming his words with any touch of fire, but delivering them in a measured and deliberate way, and in a tone which harmonized with their character and made them ...
— A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Mark Twain
... all its terrible losses, the war is doing for us with mighty and irresistible strokes, and it is a tragic truth that in our present imperfect social state, it is only a war, hurling us against other great and really co-operating communities of men, which can make us bear with comparative ease and cheerfulness the most serious burdens of loss and suffering. We act instantly as one people in war, we haggle and hesitate about the most moderate sacrifices to secure an advance in peace. It is ...
— The Unity of Civilization • Various
... Parliaments was one of his favourite objects. He seems to have meditated the revival of the Star-Chamber and the High Commission Court. His zeal for the prerogative made him unpopular; but it could not secure to him the favour of a master far more desirous of ease and pleasure than of power. Charles would rather have lived in exile and privacy, with abundance of money, a crowd of mimics to amuse him, and a score of mistresses, than have purchased the absolute dominion of the world ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... Tolstoi. (Published 1900.) It depicts with a master hand the ocean of life rocked by storm and lulled to sleep and ease. In the splash of every wave is heard the story of human emotions, misery, disenchantment, suffering, crime, and life, that is true—even in art. Illustrated. ...
— The History of a Lie - 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' • Herman Bernstein


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