easen
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ease + -en (verbal suffix).
Verb
[edit]easen (third-person singular simple present easens, present participle easening, simple past and past participle easened)
- (transitive, rare, possibly nonstandard) To make at ease; make easy or easier; (by extension) to soothe; comfort; relieve
- 1970, Agricultural development and small farmers: a study of Andhra Pradesh:
- Free availability in adequate quantities in markets very,[sic] closely situated, has easened the situation.
- 1992, Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, volume 2:
- As several electrodes are used, a great effort has been done to reduce the weight of the tail to easen the field work.
- 1996, Carl Steenstrup, A History of Law in Japan Until 1868, page 160:
- Since this book also aims at scholars of law and history who have no Japanese, I have, in the footnotes, in order to easen the reader's library search, entered authors' names as the authors wrote them, and capitalized Japanese surnames; […]
- 1997, M. V. Krishna Murthy, India on to New Horizons, page 180:
- In the West, early conjugal relations and dating have greatly helped to easen the situation.
- 2000, New Technology Japan, volume 28, page 25:
- This grip assembly easens the work of revolving the handle and is designed as a collapsible type to eliminate protrusions and to facilitate the pile extractor conveyance as well as to prevent the handle part from being bent in the event of some […]
- 2007, Sa'eda Kilani, Against Corruption, page 44:
- Conversely, the 2001 Association Law made great strides for the Yemeni civil society as it easened administrative procedures and offered incentives and tax exemptions to NGOs.