ease /ēz/

1. Freedom from pain or disturbance
2. Rest from work
3. Quiet, peace
4. Freedom from difficulty
5. Naturalness
6. Unconstrained manner
7. Wealth

1. To free from pain, trouble or anxiety
2. To make comfortable
3. To relieve
4. To loosen or relax
5. To make less difficult
6. To calm
7. To move gently
8. To manoeuvre little by little

1. To become less acute or severe (often with off or up)
2. To move very gradually
3. (of the price of shares, etc) to fall slightly

easeˈful adjective

1. Ease-giving
2. Quiet, fit for rest

easeˈless adjective

easeˈment noun

1. A right attaching to a piece of land entitling its owner to exercise some right over adjacent land owned by another person (law)
2. Relief, easing (rare)
3. Assistance (obsolete)
4. Support (obsolete)
5. Gratification (obsolete)

easˈer noun

easeˈ-giving adjective

at ease

1. Free from anxiety
2. In a comfortably relaxed frame of mind or physical attitude
3. (of soldiers) standing with feet apart, not at attention

chapel of ease see under chapel

ease off

1. To slacken gradually
2. To make or become less intense

ease oneself (archaic; euphemistic)

To urinate or defecate

ill at ease

1. Anxious
2. Embarrassed or uneasy
3. Uncomfortable

stand at ease (military)

A command to soldiers, etc to stop standing at attention, to stand with feet apart

take one's ease

To make oneself comfortable

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