Definitions for ease

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Spelling: [eez]

IPA: /iz/

Ease is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in ease (aees).

Definitions for ease

noun

1. freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
2. freedom from concern, anxiety, or solicitude; a quiet state of mind:
3. freedom from difficulty or great effort; facility:
4. freedom from financial need; plenty:
5. freedom from stiffness, constraint, or formality; unaffectedness:

Idioms

1. at ease, Military. a position of rest in which soldiers may relax but may not leave their places or talk.

Verb phrases

1. ease out, to remove from a position of authority, a job, or the like, especially by methods intended to be tactful:

verb (used with object)

1. to free from anxiety or care:
2. to mitigate, lighten, or lessen:
3. to release from pressure, tension, or the like.
4. to move or shift with great care:
5. to render less difficult; facilitate:
6. to provide (an architectural member) with an easement.
7. Shipbuilding. to trim (a timber of a wooden hull) so as to fair its surface into the desired form of the hull.
8. Nautical. to bring (the helm or rudder of a vessel) slowly amidships. to bring the head of (a vessel) into the wind. to slacken or lessen the hold upon (a rope). to lessen the hold of (the brake of a windlass).

verb (used without object)

1. to abate in severity, pressure, tension, etc. (often followed by off or up).
2. to become less painful, burdensome, etc.
3. to move, shift, or be moved or be shifted with great care.

Origin of ease

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English ese, eise Anglo-French ese, Old French aise, eise comfort, convenience Vulgar Latin *adjace(m), accusative of *adjacēs vicinity (compare Medieval Latin in aia

Examples for ease

Normality, domesticity, ease, in the blazing Arizona desert.

She appears calmer, more at ease, since the last time I sat down with her in 2008.

As it stands, the deal will ease the travel ban and trade embargo, and make it easier for Americans to do business in Cuba.

If there is no obstacle, they would enjoy the ease that is shown to everyone else.

And for them—and so for us—this is no time of ease or of rest.

"He said he was poor," urged Billy, who had been rather taken with the ease of Arledge's manner.

The gentlemen were smoking, and some of the ladies were trying to look at ease with cigarettes.

Might it not be well to ease up a little after he's out there?

Baugh hopped out and towed it a block away with practiced speed and ease.

But, if it be to ease her heart, and not to dispute my will, you may hear her out.