ease up

Questions about ease up

What does ease up mean?

ease up means "move in order to make room for someone for something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for ease up?

Close synonyms include move over, give way, give, yield, ease off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ease up a common word?

ease up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.