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EASED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear
Synonyms:
alleviated; eased; relieved
Classified under:
Similar:
mitigated (made less severe or intense)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb ease
Context examples:
Catherine's mind was greatly eased by this information, yet a something of solicitude remained, from which sprang the following question, thoroughly artless in itself, though rather distressing to the gentleman: But, Mr. Tilney, why were you less generous than your sister?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Lashing the wheel I ran forward, eased the fore and mainsheets, took in on the boom-tackles and trimmed everything for the quartering breeze which was ours.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
My uncle eased them and glanced at his watch as we saw the grey tiles and dingy red houses of Reigate in the hollow beneath us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We supposed he had now eased his mind, and told the worst he knew of the cook; but, a day or two afterwards, his conscience sustained a new twinge, and he disclosed how she had a little girl, who, early every morning, took away our bread; and also how he himself had been suborned to maintain the milkman in coals.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Probably those damp walls would soon have eased me of her charge: but to each villain his own vice; and mine is not a tendency to indirect assassination, even of what I most hate.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
So Martin did not scorch that, and eased down on his muscular tension, though nervous tension rose higher than ever, and he listened sympathetically to the other's blasphemies as he toiled and suffered over the beautiful things that women wear when they do not have to do their own laundrying.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
