To proceed with little effort.
To move (something) slowly and carefully.
To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
To reduce the difficulty of (something).
To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
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 barely manage to achieve.
To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
A shave.
A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
An awkward set of circumstances.
A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.