ease

Ease is defined as comfort, relaxation and freedom from pain, stress or anxiety.

(noun)

An example of ease is how someone feels after receiving positive test results.

Ease means to release or move away from pressure, tension or anxiety.

(verb)

An example of ease is to slowly take steps to conquer a huge fear of swimming.

See ease in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Origin: ME ese < OFr aise < VL *adjaces < L adjacens, lying nearby, hence easy to reach: see adjacent

transitive verb eased, easing

to free from pain, worry, or trouble; comfort
to lessen or alleviate (pain, anxiety, etc.)
to make easier; facilitate
1. to reduce the strain, tension, or pressure of or on; loosen; slacken
2. to reduce (the strain, tension, pressure, etc.) on (a rope, sail, etc.)
to fit or move by careful shifting, slow pressure, etc.: to ease a piano into place

intransitive verb

See ease in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The condition of being comfortable or relieved.
a. Freedom from pain, worry, or agitation: Her mind was at ease knowing that the children were safe.
b. Freedom from constraint or embarrassment; naturalness.
a. Freedom from difficulty, hardship, or effort: rose through the ranks with apparent ease.
b. Readiness or dexterity in performance; facility: a pianist who played the sonata with ease.
Freedom from financial difficulty; affluence: a life of luxury and ease.
A state of rest, relaxation, or leisure: He took his ease by the pond.

verb eased eased, eas·ing, eas·es

verb, transitive

To free from pain, worry, or agitation: eased his conscience by returning the stolen money.
a. To lessen the discomfort or pain of: shifted position to ease her back.
b. To alleviate; assuage: prescribed a drug to ease the pain.
To give respite from: eased the staff's burden by hiring more people.
To slacken the strain, pressure, or tension of; loosen: ease off a cable.
To reduce the difficulty or trouble of: eased the entrance requirements.
To move or maneuver slowly and carefully: eased the car into a narrow space; eased the director out of office.

verb, intransitive

To lessen, as in discomfort, pressure, or stress: pain that never eased.
To move or proceed with little effort: eased through life doing as little as possible.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English ese

Origin: , from Old French aise, elbowroom, physical comfort

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *asium

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