eased

comparative more eased · superlative most eased

1. Made easier, more relaxed, or less stressed.

   The lad behind the counter also possessed an eased glance as he noticed the uniform I wore.

   2017, A.T. Haessly, The Soul’s Famine

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   I got grace to cast all my burdens over upon him, and my heart lightened: and my soul was more eased and pleased, than if I had been a crowned emperor of all the kingdoms of the world .

   1866, Ralph Erskine, Select sermons, page 11

   Art is long, and time fleeting, but only the individual life, not the greater life of humanity, which knows not death, but ever flows onward, enlarged by experience and suffering, disciplined by knowlege, its hardest and most disfiguring labour more and more eased by science.

   1899, F. F. Leighton, Life and Books, page 101

   One phone call to the lawyer and some of my anxiety had lessened. Today, winning in court, a bit more eased.

   2020, Eve Langlais, Halfway There

2. Soothed or mitigated.

   Only now we found that the despare seemed more and more more eased with drugs : alcohol , heroin , barbituates .

   1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, page 490

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   But in the worst paroxysms it was most eased by the patient's taking a sitting posture, at the same time that the body was bowed forwards .

   1856, Association medical journal, page 358

   But, alas! a white staff will not help gouty feet to walk better than a common cane; nor a blue ribbon bind up a wound so well as a fillet; the glitter of gold or of diamonds will b ut hurt sore eyes, instead of curing them; and an aching head will be no more eased by wearing a crown instead of a common night-cap .

   1883, W. Temple, A Homiletic encyclopaedia of illustrations in theology and morals, page 37

3. Less extreme or stringent.

   Therefore, the criteria applied to the bank merger are more eased compared with the general criteria.

   2004, Zongle Huang, Jiyuan Chen, The Future Development of Competition Framework, page 218

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   What H.R. 2582 suggests is that the claimant would have two bites at the apple: First, the economic portion of his loss in an administrative proceeding, very eased evidentiary requirements; and then a second bit through a tort claim.

   1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism, Implementation of the Superfund Program, page 169

   By leveraging cosine for self-attention, more eased values can be obtained, offering a more accurate measurement of similarity between vectors.

   2023, Image and Graphics, page 314

1. participlepastpast participle of ease