eased

adj

1. Made easier, more relaxed, or less stressed.

   “I got grace to cast all my burdens over upon him, and my heart lightened: and my soul was more eased and pleased, than if I had been a crowned emperor of all the kingdoms of the world .”

   “Art is long, and time fleeting, but only the individual life, not the greater life of humanity, which knows not death, but ever flows onward, enlarged by experience and suffering, disciplined by knowlege, its hardest and most disfiguring labour more and more eased by science.”

   “The lad behind the counter also possessed an eased glance as he noticed the uniform I wore.”

   “One phone call to the lawyer and some of my anxiety had lessened. Today, winning in court, a bit more eased.”

2. Soothed or mitigated.

   “But in the worst paroxysms it was most eased by the patient's taking a sitting posture, at the same time that the body was bowed forwards .”

   “Only now we found that the despare seemed more and more more eased with drugs : alcohol , heroin , barbituates .”

   “But, alas! a white staff will not help gouty feet to walk better than a common cane; nor a blue ribbon bind up a wound so well as a fillet; the glitter of gold or of diamonds will b ut hurt sore eyes, instead of curing them; and an aching head will be no more eased by wearing a crown instead of a common night-cap .”

3. Less extreme or stringent.

   “What H.R. 2582 suggests is that the claimant would have two bites at the apple: First, the economic portion of his loss in an administrative proceeding, very eased evidentiary requirements; and then a second bit through a tort claim.”

   “Therefore, the criteria applied to the bank merger are more eased compared with the general criteria.”

   “By leveraging cosine for self-attention, more eased values can be obtained, offering a more accurate measurement of similarity between vectors.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of ease