To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
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 loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
To lessen in intensity.
To give respite to (someone).
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.
To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
To squeeze between two objects.
Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
To arrest or capture.
To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
To steal, usually something inconsequential.
To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
To seize; to grip; to bite.
A close compression of anything with the fingers.
A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
An organic herbal smoke additive.
A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
An arrest.
A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.