Synonyms for ease up
ease up

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1. move over, give way, give, ease up, yieldverb

   move in order to make room for someone for something

   "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd"

   Synonyms:
   hand, commit, chip in, dedicate, succumb, cave in, collapse, impart, flag, concede, pass on, move over, return, establish, knuckle under, fail, hold, reach, go bad, have, give in, make, give, throw, gift, kick in, conk out, feed, break, slacken off, break down, apply, relent, give out, grant, go, founder, devote, fall in, pass, render, buckle under, cede, soften, present, die, sacrifice, yield, open, turn over, leave, give way, consecrate, generate, contribute, ease off, afford, let up, pay, bear

2. ease up, ease off, slacken off, flagverb

   become less intense

   Synonyms:
   swag, give, flag, ease off, yield, move over, slacken off, sag, give way, droop, let up

3. ease up, ease off, let upverb

   reduce pressure or intensity

   "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down"

   Synonyms:
   slack off, give, flag, ease off, yield, move over, slacken off, abate, give way, slack, die away, let up

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1. Christopher Murray:

   The trajectory of the pandemic will change – and dramatically for the worse – if people ease up on social distancing or relax with other precautions.

2. Ernest Moniz:

   I want to say this is not an agreement for 10 years or 15 years or 20 years. It is a long-term agreement with a whole set of phases, and if Iran earns over this time period trust and confidence in their peaceful objectives, well then over time the constraints will, in phases, ease up, but never get lower than the additional protocol and all of the access that it provides.

3. Gregory Hutchings:

   The first couple (snow days) are OK, when you get into five, six, enough is enough. I have a plea with Mother Nature to ease up a little bit.

4. Tate Reeves:

   I wanted to announce that we can all ease up and re-open today, but we can't. We are still in the eye of the storm.

5. Nicola Sturgeon:

   I have asked the UK government not to deploy their' Stay Alert' advertising campaign in Scotland, because the message at this stage in Scotland is... except for the essential reasons you know about, stay at home, we must not squander our progress by easing up too soon, or by sending mixed messages that result in people thinking it's okay to ease up now. Let me be very blunt about the consequences if we were to do that : people will die unnecessarily. We must not take that risk.