"ease up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: eases up [present, singular, third-person], easing up [participle, present], eased up [participle, past], eased up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} ease up (third-person singular simple present eases up, present participle easing up, simple past and past participle eased up)
  1. (informal, intransitive) To become more relaxed or less demanding. Tags: informal, intransitive Translations (to become more relaxed): hellittää (Finnish), lâcher du lest (French), entspannen (German), zurückhalten (German), nachlassen (German)
    Sense id: en-ease_up-en-verb-2gFiSuaO Disambiguation of 'to become more relaxed': 94 6
  2. (informal, intransitive) To reduce one's speed. Tags: informal, intransitive Translations (to reduce speed): hiljentää (Finnish), hellittää (Finnish), lever le pied (French), bremsen (German)
    Sense id: en-ease_up-en-verb-uK1hUXAH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 23 77 Disambiguation of 'to reduce speed': 7 93

Inflected forms

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