ease up

Verb

Meaning

reduce pressure or intensity

become less intense

move in order to make room for someone for something

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Synonyms

give flag yield ease off slacken off chill out still play rest loaf idle relax lounge slump flop

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Antonyms

fume lose it struggle rage explode sweat

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Hypernyms

change move fall decrease alter modify

Examples

he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down Source: Internet

The park gave way to a supermarket Source: Internet

`Move over,' he told the crowd Source: Internet

Faced with this awful prospect, will he urge Premier Gladys to ease up on any lockdown in the way he repeatedly did to Victoria during its second lockdown? Source: Internet

Credit goes again here to the new car’s much more modern architecture: Its stiffer body gave engineers more room to let the tires and springs ease up. Source: Internet

However, Klein knew when to ease up when, for example, he was faced with a mass walkout by health support workers and nurses in 1995. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ease the pressure on ease the process ease the work eased easeful easefull