ease up

present singular third person eases up · participle present easing up · participle past eased up · past eased up

1. informalintransitiveTo become more relaxed or less demanding.

   I suggest that you ease up a bit at work. You're getting stressed out.

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   You should ease up on your son. You're putting too much pressure on him.

2. informalintransitiveTo reduce one's speed.

   He came hurtling round the corner, but quickly eased up when he saw Jane standing there.

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   As we swung through Hatfield in just over six hours from Edinburgh, the day was all but won, and Tappin eased up completely.

   1956 December 28, W. J. Alcock, “On the Footplate of the "Elizabethan"”, in Railway Magazine, page 821