gradually ease
Frequency: 7.413.5 per million words
make sth less painful/serious/difficult
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Examples (10)
- As the medication took effect, the intense headache began to gradually ease.
- After the morning rush hour, traffic congestion will gradually ease.
- The tension in the room started to gradually ease once the mediator arrived.
- Economists predict that inflation will gradually ease over the next few months.
- The government announced that lockdown restrictions would gradually ease.
- With practice, his anxiety about public speaking started to gradually ease.
- The storm is expected to gradually ease by the evening.
- New policies are designed to gradually ease the transition to a new system.
- Her workload has started to gradually ease since the new team member joined.
- International aid is helping to gradually ease the humanitarian crisis.