EASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eased mean? 

• EASED (adjective)
  The adjective EASED has 1 sense:

1. (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear

  Familiarity information: EASED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear

Synonyms:

alleviated; eased; relieved

Similar:

mitigated (made less severe or intense)

 Context examples 

My dear mother had borne her long struggle without a sign all these years, but now that she was so suddenly eased of it she fell sobbing upon his neck.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It has eased my joints, which were somewhat stiff from these years of peace.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She leaned against me, so light and lily-frail, and as her trembling eased away it seemed as though I became aware of prodigious strength.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And even as they eased him down upon the blankets his snores were rising on the frosty air.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And the Professor, much eased in his mind, settled down to his slumber once more.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They began to talk; their conversation eased me completely: frivolous, mercenary, heartless, and senseless, it was rather calculated to weary than enrage a listener.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Ends was choking, and it was not until the grip on his throat was eased that he was able to signify his acquiescence in the digging-up programme.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Doubtless sympathy eased her somewhat, but she was very low in thought and spirit, and wept silently and weakly for a long time.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Coming into Canterbury, I loitered through the old streets with a sober pleasure that calmed my spirits, and eased my heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The emperor concluded me to be drowned, and that the enemy’s fleet was approaching in a hostile manner: but he was soon eased of his fears; for the channel growing shallower every step I made, I came in a short time within hearing, and holding up the end of the cable, by which the fleet was fastened, I cried in a loud voice, Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)