ease vs ferment

ease

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

  • Additional space provided to allow greater movement. 

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

  • To give respite to (someone). 

ferment

noun
  • A state of agitation or of turbulent change. 

  • Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation. 

  • A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. 

  • A catalyst. 

verb
  • To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in. 

  • To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew. 

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