Dic: ease (your way) somewhere

• I eased my way towards the door.
• She eased back into the chair and nodded.
• He eased his foot off the accelerator.
• Leaphorn eased himself silently upward.
• I eased open the door.

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If you ease your way somewhere or ease somewhere, you move there slowly, carefully, and gently. If you ease something somewhere, you move it there slowly, carefully, and gently.

.... Cobuild