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say it: eez
ease is a noun and verb meaning "freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort". It is pronounced /ˈiz/ — eez. It carries 9 recorded senses.
freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
“he rose through the ranks with apparent ease”
“they put it into containers for ease of transportation”
“the very easiness of the deed held her back”
a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
“a life of luxury and ease”
“he had all the material comforts of this world”
freedom from constraint or embarrassment
“I am never at ease with strangers”
freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
“took his repose by the swimming pool”
make easier
“you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ease come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.