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EASE OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ease off mean? 

EASE OFF (verb)
  The verb EASE OFF has 2 senses:

1. become less intenseplay

2. reduce pressure or intensityplay

  Familiarity information: EASE OFF used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EASE OFF (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Become less intense

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

ease off; ease up; flag; slacken off

Hypernyms (to "ease off" is one way to...):

decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s


Sense 2

Meaning:

Reduce pressure or intensity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

ease off; ease up; let up

Context example:

he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down

Hypernyms (to "ease off" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something


 Context examples 


We'll have to do sentry-go and ease off a point or so on the rum.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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