Made less harsh
The crossword clue "Made less harsh" is answered by EASED, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EASED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EASED answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EASED
Every other clue in this collection answered by EASED, most used first.
- Let up - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Alleviated - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Relaxed - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Made simpler - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Facilitated - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
- Mitigated - used 25 times, most recently in 2021
- Relieved - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Moved slowly - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Moved carefully - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Made less difficult - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Assuaged - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Abated - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Allayed - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Lightened - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Slackened - used 15 times, most recently in 2005
- Comforted - used 14 times, most recently in 2007
- Lessened - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Lightened (up) - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Made bearable - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
- Made more bearable - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Soothed - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Disburdened - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
- Loosened - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Simplified - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Made less stressful - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Buffered - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Made less severe - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Reduced, as tension - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Made lighter - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Slacked off - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Slackened off - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- ___ up (relaxed) - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Less common - RARER, used 151 times
- Made a choice - OPTED, used 106 times
- Made a mistake - ERRED, used 92 times
- Less friendly - ICIER, used 86 times
- Less risky - SAFER, used 75 times
- Less cordial - ICIER, used 71 times
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