To lessen in intensity.
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 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 soften; to mitigate.
To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
to retract.
To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.
Made of velvet.
The drug dextromethorphan.
A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
Money acquired by gambling.
Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
A female chinchilla; a sow.