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E — Each to Eat dirt (Part 5 of 6)

    5. Facilitate, make less difficult.

Ease away. (Naut.) Slacken gradually (a rope), ease off.

Easement, n. (Law.) Privilege (by grant or prescription), convenience, accommodation, advantage.

Ease off. (Naut.) See ease away.

Eastern, a.

    1. Oriental, orient.
    2. Toward the east.

Easy, a.

    1. Light, not difficult, not burdensome.
    2. Quiet, tranquil, untroubled, comfortable, contented, satisfied, at rest, at ease, without anxiety, without pain.
    3. Yielding, complying, compliant, pliant, facile, submissive, accommodating, complaisant.
    4. unconstrained, graceful, not formal, not stiff.
    5. Natural, flowing, unaffected, smooth.
    6. Gentle, moderate.
    7. Not straitened (pecuniarily), comfortable, affluent.

Eat, v. a.

    1. Chew and swallow, ingest.
    2. Corrode, erode, consume, wear away, gnaw into.

Eat, v. n.

    1. Feed, take food.
    2. Act corrosively.