ease
part of speech
noun (ease; uncountable); verb (ease, eases, eased, easing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Ease means with no difficulty: doing something easily. tree →
2) Ease means a calm, relaxed, comfortable feeling. tree →
3) To ease is to make pain, worry or a problem less. tree →
4) To ease something is to move it slowly and carefully. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and stories: «at ease» means relaxed; «with ease» means easily; a medicine eases pain; you ease a splinter out. In PE and the army, «stand at ease» is a position. Phrases: «with ease», «at ease», «put someone at ease», «ease off», «ease up».
examples
- She won the race with ease. tree →
- The kind teacher put the new boy at ease. tree →
- The medicine eased the pain in my knee. tree →
- He eased the door open so it wouldn't creak. tree →
- The rain eased off in the afternoon. tree →
- Ease up, you're pulling too hard! tree →
- I feel at ease with my best friend. tree →
- "It might ease your heart a little," she said. tree →
note
Noun is uncountable. From it: «easy», «easily», «uneasy». «Ill at ease» means uncomfortable or nervous. In a maths problem, «with ease» says nothing about numbers; «ease off» can mean the amount got smaller.
In the corpora
- Dad takes an antacid tablet for heartburn: the alkali in it cancels some stomach acid and the burning eases.
- Confession can ease a guilty heart, but the person you blamed still needs your sorry and the truth told.
- Confession can ease guilt about teasing, but the sorry to the person teased is still needed.
- Doctors save many lives and ease pain, but no doctor can stop everyone from dying one day.
- Rise up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice; ye confident daughters, give ear unto my speech.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ease» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.