Assuage

The answer

EASE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EASE answer page.

Used 43 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ALLAY (15 uses in xd)
• SALVE (9 uses in xd)
• SLAKE (9 uses in xd)
• SOOTHE (8 uses in xd)
• RELIEVE (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for EASE

Every other clue in this collection answered by EASE, most used first.

• Facility - used 295 times, most recently in 2026
• Comfort - used 248 times, most recently in 2026
• Simplicity - used 233 times, most recently in 2026
• Relaxation - used 181 times, most recently in 2026
• Alleviate - used 169 times, most recently in 2026
• Lighten - used 148 times, most recently in 2026
• Make simpler - used 136 times, most recently in 2026
• Let up - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
• Life of Riley - used 109 times, most recently in 2025
• Effortlessness - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
• Facilitate - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
• Leisure - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
• Lack of difficulty - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Make less difficult - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Simplify - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• With the greatest of ___ - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Naturalness - used 59 times, most recently in 2024
• Mitigate - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• The life of Riley - used 53 times, most recently in 2018
• Move carefully - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Peace of mind - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Relieve - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Lighten (up) - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
• Lessen - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ on Down the Road" - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Soothe - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Move slowly - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Relax - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Affluence - used 30 times, most recently in 2009
• Slacken - used 29 times, most recently in 2021
• Allay - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Ill at ___ (uncomfortable) - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• "At ___, soldier!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Loosen - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Abate - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
• "___ on Down the Road" ("The Wiz" song) - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Opposite of difficulty - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Lighten, as a burden - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Make less complicated - used 21 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Otherwise - ELSE, used 1,353 times
• Give off - EMIT, used 874 times
• At any time - EVER, used 696 times
• Therefore - ERGO, used 684 times
• Gaelic - ERSE, used 679 times
• Raison d'___ - ETRE, used 658 times

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