ease
Speech parts
1. ease - Noun
2. ease - Verb
Meaning
Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.
Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.
Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind.
Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address.
To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind.
To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.
To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.
To entertain; to furnish with accommodations.
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I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Little is spent with difficulty, much with ease.
Don't budge, if you sit at ease.
At a little fountain one drinks at one's ease.