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easingverbpresent participle of ease to free from obstruction or difficultymeasures intended to ease the flow of traffic during rush hour facilitating, greasing, loosening (up), smoothing, unclogging accelerating, expediting, hastening, hurrying, quickening, rushing, speedingadvancing, forwarding, furthering, promotingabetting, aiding, assisting, helping, improvingdisentangling, straightening (out), untanglingsimplifying, streamlining paving the way (for) complicating hindering, impedingretardingaggravating, worseningperplexing, sophisticating to make less tautthe rock climber eased the rope a little so that his fellow climber had room to maneuver loosening, relaxing, slackening, slacking detaching, freeing, unbinding, undoing, unfastening, untying(or untieing) straining, stretching, tensing, tensioning, tightening attaching, binding, fastening, tying(or tieing)constraining, restraining to make more bearable or less severegrandmother's firm belief that there are few ailments that chicken soup won't ease allaying, alleviating, assuaging, helping, mitigating, mollifying, palliating, relieving, soothing abating, lightening, moderating, softening, temperingcuring, healing, remedyingamending, correcting, emending, fixing, mending, rectifying, reforming, repairingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining aggravating, exacerbating harming, hurting, impairing, injuringheightening, intensifying, sharpening to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentthe chairman of the Federal Reserve has promised to ease interest rates abating, decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, diminishing, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducing compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittlingdeflating, shrinkingminimizingmoderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swellingelongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protractingadding (to), complementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifyingredoubling to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallynew investments in the region have eased since the rise in interest rates abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening |