ease vs still

ease

verb
  • To give respite to (someone). 

  • To move (something) slowly and carefully. 

  • To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. 

  • To reduce the difficulty of (something). 

  • To proceed with little effort. 

  • To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). 

  • To loosen or slacken the tension on a line. 

  • To lessen in intensity. 

noun
  • Additional space provided to allow greater movement. 

  • Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position. 

  • Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance. 

  • Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth. 

  • Ability, the means to do something 

  • Freedom from difficulty. 

  • Skill, dexterity, facility. 

  • Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference. 

  • Freedom from effort, leisure, rest. 

  • Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence. 

  • Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace. 

still

verb
  • To calm down, to quiet. 

  • To cause to fall by drops. 

  • To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill. 

noun
  • A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee. 

  • The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen. 

  • A device for distilling liquids. 

  • A period of calm or silence. 

  • A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery. 

  • A resident of the Falkland Islands. 

  • A photograph, as opposed to movie footage. 

adj
  • Not effervescing; not sparkling. 

  • Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time 

  • Not moving; calm. 

  • Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low. 

  • Uttering no sound; silent. 

adv
  • Without motion. 

  • To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs. 

  • Even, yet. 

  • Up to a time, as in the preceding time. 

  • Nevertheless. 

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