lessen vs ease off

ease off vs lessen

lessen and ease off both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lessen	No	No	Yes	No
ease off	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, ease off is a hyponym of lessen; that is, ease off is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than lessen:

lessen: decrease in size, extent, or range
ease off: become less intense

Other hyponyms of lessen include break, shrink, shrivel, taper, drop off, fly, vanish, vaporize, break, ease up, flag, slacken off, weaken, boil down, concentrate, decoct, reduce, contract, shrink, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, wither, abate, die away, let up, slack, slack off, deflate, dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down, remit, de-escalate, depreciate, devaluate, devalue, undervalue, shorten, thin out, decline, go down, wane, wane, wane, decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up, decrescendo.

lessen (verb)	ease off (verb)
decrease in size, extent, or range	become less intense
wear off or die down	reduce pressure or intensity
make become smaller

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