Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eased

/iːzd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English

Syllables: eased
IPA: /iːzd/

6

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Made easier, more relaxed, or less stressed.

adj

Soothed or mitigated.

adj

Less extreme or stringent.

verb

past participle of ease

Example Sentences

"I got grace to cast all my burdens over upon him, and my heart lightened: and my soul was more eased and pleased, than if I had been a crowned emperor of all the kingdoms of the world ."
"Art is long, and time fleeting, but only the individual life, not the greater life of humanity, which knows not death, but ever flows onward, enlarged by experience and suffering, disciplined by knowlege, its hardest and most disfiguring labour more and more eased by science."
"The lad behind the counter also possessed an eased glance as he noticed the uniform I wore."
"One phone call to the lawyer and some of my anxiety had lessened. Today, winning in court, a bit more eased."
"But in the worst paroxysms it was most eased by the patient's taking a sitting posture, at the same time that the body was bowed forwards ."
"Only now we found that the despare seemed more and more more eased with drugs : alcohol , heroin , barbituates ."

Inflected Forms

more eased (comparative) most eased (superlative)

Derived Forms

uneased

Synonyms

alleviated relieved

Rhymes With

pleased seized squeezed teased diseased displeased sneezed appeased breezed cheesed

Questions

How do you pronounce eased?: The recorded pronunciation is /iːzd/.
What does eased mean?: Made easier, more relaxed, or less stressed.

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