ease
/iz/ noun B2- Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily. · He played the ukelele with ease.· The ease of lifting the weight, despite lack of skill, came from her pure strength.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth. · She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference. · The pension set her mind at ease.
- Freedom from effort; leisure, rest. · We took our ease on the patio.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence. · His inheritance catapulted him into a life of ease.
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace. · She dealt with the faculty with combined authority and ease.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance. · Take one pill every 12 hours to provide ease from pain.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position. · At ease, soldier!
Plural eases
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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After having passed with tolerable ease through the subterranean passage, which, however, did not admit of their holding themselves erect, the two friends reached the further end of the corridor, into which the abbé’s cell opened; from that point the passage became much narrower, and barely permitted one to creep through on hands and knees.
A WILD ASS and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease.
The Ass, as long as he traveled along the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear.
But after a time he became more at ease, and presently Toto and the Cowardly Lion had grown to be good friends.
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