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easing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun easing has 2 senses
- easing(n = noun.event) moderation, relief - a change for the better; Array is a kind of alteration, change, modification
- easing(n = noun.act) alleviation, easement, relief - the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain" is a kind of decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down
has particulars: disembarrassment, breath of fresh air
Derived form verb ease3
has particulars: spasmolysis, detente, palliation, liberalisation, liberalization, relaxation, decompressing, decompression
Derived form verb ease2
CIDE DICTIONARY
easing, n.
- a change for the better. [WordNet 1.5]
- the act of reducing something unpleasant, such as pain. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
easing
abatement, abating, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, calming, cathartic, chastening, clarification, cleansing, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent, demulsion, diminishing, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disencumbering, disencumberment, dulcification, dulling, ease, easement, emollient, expediting, expedition, facilitation, falling-off, hastening, hushing, laxation, leniency, lenitive, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, mellowing, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative, modulation, mollification, mollifying, numbing, pacification, padding, pain-killing, palliation, palliative, purgative, quickening, quietening, quieting, reducing, reduction, relaxation, relaxing, relief, relieving, remedial, remedy, remission, salving, simplification, simplifying, slackening, smoothing, softening, softening-up, soothing, speeding, streamlining, subduement, subduing, tempering, tranquilization, unballasting, unburdening, unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing
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