Ease

English Meaning

Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

1. The condition of being comfortable or relieved.
2. Freedom from pain, worry, or agitation: Her mind was at ease knowing that the children were safe.
3. Freedom from constraint or embarrassment; naturalness.
4. Freedom from difficulty, hardship, or effort: rose through the ranks with apparent ease.
5. Readiness or dexterity in performance; facility: a pianist who played the sonata with ease.
6. Freedom from financial difficulty; affluence: a life of luxury and ease.
7. A state of rest, relaxation, or leisure: He took his ease by the pond.
8. To free from pain, worry, or agitation: eased his conscience by returning the stolen money.
9. To lessen the discomfort or pain of: shifted position to ease her back.
10. To alleviate; assuage: prescribed a drug to ease the pain.
11. To give respite from: eased the staff's burden by hiring more people.
12. To slacken the strain, pressure, or tension of; loosen: ease off a cable.
13. To reduce the difficulty or trouble of: eased the entrance requirements.
14. To move or maneuver slowly and carefully: eased the car into a narrow space; eased the director out of office.
15. To lessen, as in discomfort, pressure, or stress: pain that never eased.
16. To move or proceed with little effort: eased through life doing as little as possible.
17. at ease In a relaxed position, especially standing silently at rest with the right foot stationary: put the soldiers at ease while waiting for inspection.
18. at ease Used as a command for troops to assume a relaxed position.