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

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