VERB
- become less intense
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move in order to make room for someone for something
`Move over,' he told the crowd
The park gave way to a supermarket -
reduce pressure or intensity
he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down
How To Use ease up In A Sentence
- If road deaths decrease you don't ease up on road safety.
- The Fed next week is set to release updated economic forecasts that Mr. Bernanke said should be "reasonably consistent" with private-sector forecasts, which is to say gloomier than the Fed's last public forecast. Bernanke Open to a Sizable Rate Cut
- O'Connor said the symptoms usually persist for a few days and then ease up.
- He told supporters not to ease up even though he's leading in the presidential race.
- Asian markets were mixed after the Federal Reserve chief hinted the bank could ease up on its stimulus taper if the growth outlook weakens.
- Only from bar 72 with the transition into the coda can you ease up slightly on the tempo, with a marked smorzando in bar 75 and a poco rallentando in bar 80.
- Ask the children on the end to ease up ; some more people want to sit down.
- In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him.
- I think you should ease up on the kids a bit.
- As he got older, he started to ease up a little.