Ease
Ease verb - To make smaller in amount, volume, or extent.
Usage example: the chairman of the Federal Reserve has promised to ease interest rates
Shrink
Common collocations
| people | ease people | shrink people |
| way | ease way | shrink way |
| characters | ease characters | shrink characters |
| player | ease player | shrink player |
| Other words: players. | ||
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Shrink and Ease. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ease/shrink
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