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ease up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (informal, intransitive) To become more relaxed or less demanding.
   • I suggest that you ease up a bit at work. You're getting stressed out.
   • You should ease up on your son. You're putting too much pressure on him.
2. (informal, intransitive) To reduce one's speed.
   • He came hurtling round the corner, but quickly eased up when he saw Jane standing there.
   • As we swung through Hatfield in just over six hours from Edinburgh, the day was all but won, and Tappin eased up completely. 1956 December 14, W. J. Alcock, “On the Footplate of the "Elizabethan"”, in Railway Magazine, page 821:

Forms

Translations (9)

fi hellittää (to become more relaxed) · fi hellittää (to reduce speed) · fi hiljentää (to reduce speed) · fr lever le pied (to reduce speed) · de entspannen (to become more relaxed) · fr lâcher du lest (to become more relaxed) · de zurückhalten (to become more relaxed) · de bremsen (to reduce speed) · de nachlassen (to become more relaxed)