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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



... behind some of the boulders and rocks, but the make-up of the surface around him was so similar that three red skins could surround him with perfect ease and without any danger to themselves. Fred therefore made up his mind that he was in about as uncomfortable a situation as a fugitive could ...
— The Cave in the Mountain • Lieut. R. H. Jayne
... held to have been an unspeakable blessing for Italian poetry. The clearness and beauty of its structure, the invitation it gave to elevate the thought in the second and more rapidly moving half, and the ease with which it could be learned by heart, made it valued even by the greatest masters. In fact, they would not have kept it in use down to our own century had they not been penetrated with a sense ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt
... had not learned to be fond of books. Her parents had not been in the habit of reading to her, and, although in school she could read books that had quite long words in them, still she could not read with sufficient ease to make it a ...
— Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy • Frank Richard Stockton
... the head. Zoeth and Shadrach looked solemn and ill at ease. Mary-'Gusta looked at the ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: It was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon." It is natural to imagine, that the fame of so remarkable a prince, concurring with the comparative ease with which gold and silver were procurable, would contribute to establish that taste for splendour which has ever distinguished the potentates of the East. It is stated by Sir J. Chardin, that the plate of the ...
— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I • Francis Augustus Cox


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