0 past simple and past participle of ease
1 to make or become less severe, difficult, unpleasant, painful, etc.:
2 to move or to make something move slowly and carefully in a particular direction or into a particular position:
New measures have been introduced to ease traffic congestion in the city.
After the Second World War lots of prefabs were put up to ease the housing crisis.
A decisive win would certainly help to ease the pressure on the team's captain.
This latest incident will do nothing to ease tensions between the two countries.
The new laws are intended to ease the burden of social welfare costs.
To placate his enemies, restrictions on the freedom of the press were first eased and then abolished.
This was a course of action which eased older workers out, rather than kept them in.
But, even when financial anxieties eased, psychological pressures continued.
