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ease up

ease up verb: to become more relaxed or less demanding.

Verb

ease up (third-person singular simple present eases up, present participle easing up, simple past and past participle eased up)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To become more relaxed or less demanding.
    • I suggest that you ease up a bit at work. You're getting stressed out.
    • You should ease up on your son. You're putting too much pressure on him.
  2. (informal, intransitive) To reduce one's speed.
    • He came hurtling round the corner, but quickly eased up when he saw Jane standing there.
    • As we swung through Hatfield in just over six hours from Edinburgh, the day was all but won, and Tappin eased up completely.1956 December, W. J. Alcock, “On the Footplate of the "Elizabethan"”, in Railway Magazine, page 821

Forms of ease up

third-person singular presenteases up
present participleeasing up
past participleeased up
pasteased up

Questions about ease up

What does ease up mean?
Ease up means to become more relaxed or less demanding.
What part of speech is ease up?
Ease up is a verb.
What is the past tense of ease up?
The past tense of ease up is eased up.

Words near ease up in the dictionary

  1. ease of doing business index
  2. ease of doing business indexes
  3. ease off
  4. ease one's mind
  5. ease oneself
  6. ease up
  7. Easebourne
  8. eased
  9. eased off
  10. eased one's mind
  11. eased oneself

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