allay

About 0.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

   to allay popular excitement

2. verb To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.

   to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity

3. verb To subside, abate, become peaceful.
4. verb To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
5. verb To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.
6. noun Alleviation; abatement; check.
7. noun An alloy.

Similar words

assuage relieve ease still quench slake appease soothe mollify mitigating

Often followed by

the their his any fears her it this these

Word family

allayed allaying allays