Eased
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Ease
Checker: Roderick
Examples
- I should soon be eased of it, if I did. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On the 2d of March, however, I learned of Sherman's success, which eased my mind very much. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I eased up rowing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He knew the wall just below that was too steep for any one to climb but below it eased and some one might have circled up above. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But having eased her conscience by saying these words, she was not sorry that they were not heard. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Coming into Canterbury, I loitered through the old streets with a sober pleasure that calmed my spirits, and eased my heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But the old moralist eased him by saying serenely: Well, well, young men will be young men. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Roderick