allay
/əˈleɪ/ verb C2- To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm. · to allay popular excitement· to allay the tumult of the passions
- To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate. · to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity
He/she/it allays · Past allayed · Past participle allayed · -ing form allaying
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- He/she/it
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- Past
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- Past participle
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- -ing form
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He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.
Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly.
The tumult of Elizabeth’s mind was allayed by this conversation.
Still, she felt her pulse, and finding it throb violently she remembered that the best method of dispelling such illusions was to drink, for a draught of the beverage prepared by the doctor to allay her fever seemed to cause a reaction of the brain, and for a short time she suffered less.
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