Usually means: Reduces, alleviates, lessens intensity or difficulty.
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  1. eases: Merriam-Webster
  2. eases: Collins English Dictionary
  3. EASES, eases: Vocabulary.com
  4. Eases, eases: Wordnik
  5. eases: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. EASes, eases: Wiktionary
  7. eases: Dictionary.com
  8. eases: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  1. eases: Legal dictionary

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Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. eases: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. eases: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ease)

noun:  Ability, the means to do something, particularly:
noun:  Skill, dexterity, facility.
noun:  Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness, particularly:
noun:  Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
noun:  Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
noun:  Freedom from difficulty.
noun:  Freedom from effort; leisure, rest.
noun:  Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
noun:  Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
noun:  Relief, an end to discomfort, particularly:
noun:  Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
noun:  (euphemistic, obsolete) Release from intestinal discomfort: defecation.
noun:  Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
noun:  (clothing) Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
noun:  (obsolete) A convenience; a luxury.
noun:  (obsolete) A relief; an easement.
verb:  (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
verb:  (transitive) To give respite to (someone).
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).
verb:  (transitive) To move (something) slowly and carefully.
verb:  (intransitive) To lessen in intensity.
verb:  (intransitive) To proceed with little effort.
verb:  (transitive, slang, archaic) To take something from (a person), especially by robbery.
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