Ease

Definition

ease /i:z/ n [U] ၁။ အခက္အခဲမရိွျခင္း။ အလြယ္ကေလး။ the ease with which he understood the situation ❍ He passed the exam with ease. ❍ We've put the files here for ease of access. ၂။ ၿငိမ္းေအးျခင္း။ ေသာကကင္းေဝးျခင္း။ သက္သာျခင္း။ a life of ease ❍ ease of mind ❍ The injection brought him immediate ease. Compare EASY adj ၂ v ၁။ ေလ်ာ့ေစေပါ့ေစသည္။ ေလ်ာ့လာသည္။ the need to ease traffic congestion in the city centre ❍ ease the burden of debt ❍ the demand for new measures to ease the housing crisis ❍ the easing of censorship ❍ The situation is beginning to ease. ၂။ (က) (ေဝဒနာ၊ စိုးရိမ္ေသာက စသည္) ေလ်ာ့ပါးေစသည္၊ သက္သာေစသည္။ The aspirins eased my headache. ❍ Talking eased his anxiety. ❍ It would ease my mind to know what happened to him. ❍ The pain will soon ease (away/off). (ခ) ~ sb of sth ေပ်ာက္ကင္းေစသည္။ Walking helped to ease him of his pain. ၃။ အသာအယာ၊ ျဖည္းျဖည္းလွမ္းသည္၊ ေရႊ႕သည္။ She eased slowly forwards. ❍ easing her way along the ledge to reach the terrified boy ❍ He eased himself into a chair. ❍ Ease the cake out when it has cooled. ၄။ ေခ်ာင္ ေအာင္၊ ပြေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ ease the steering ❍ The coat needs to be eased under the armpits. ၅။ (တန္ဖိုး၊ ႏႈန္းထား) က်ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္၊ က်လာသည္။ Interest rates have eased since December. ❍ Share prices eased back from afternoon levels. ❍ There was pressure to ease taxation. ❏ (stand) at ease [ IDM ] (စစ္သားမ်ား) သက္သာ အေန အထား (ရပ္သည္)။ Compare ATTENTION ၄ ❏ (be/feel) at (one's) ease [ IDM ] ေအးေအးသက္သာ။ ၿငိမ္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္း။ I never feel completely at ease with him/in his company. ❏ ease (oneself/sb) into sth [ PHRV ] တတ္ေအာင္ တျဖည္းျဖည္း ေလ့လာသည္။ တျဖည္းျဖည္းႏွင့္ တတ္လာ သည္။ ကူညီသည္။ ease oneself into a new job. ❏ ease off [ PHRV ] ေလ်ာ့လာ၊ ျပယ္လာ၊ နည္းလာသည္။ The tension between us has eased off a little. ❍ The flow of traffic eased off. ❏ ease sb out (of sth) [ PHRV ] (တာဝန္ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ျခင္း၊ မႏိုင္ဝန္ထမ္းခိုင္းျခင္းမ်ဳိးျဖင့္) အလုပ္မွထြက္သြားေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ He was gradually eased out of his position as chairman. ❏ ease up [ PHRV ] ၁။ အရိွန္ေလွ်ာ့ခ်သည္။ The car eased up before the bend. ၂။ ေလ်ာ့သည္။ ပါးသည္။ I'm very busy just now—can it wait until things have eased up a little? ❏ ease up (on sb/sth) [ PHRV ] တျဖည္းျဖည္း ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ I would ease up on the cigarettes if I were you. ❏ put/set sb at (their) ease [ IDM ] သက္ေသာင့္ သက္သာ၊ ေအးေအးေဆးေဆးျဖစ္ေစသည္။ He had been dreading their meeting but her warm welcome soon put him at his ease.

Examples

1. [with ease] : Young children seem to master computer games with ease.
2. We completed the climb with relative ease (=fairly easily).
3. [ease of] : For maximum ease of use the materials are arranged in groups.
4. He was a compassionate doctor blessed with natural ease.