Allay

Verb

 * 1)  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
 * 1)  To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
 * to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity
 * 1)  To subside, become peaceful.
 * 2) * 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:
 * And the wynde alayed, and there folowed a greate calme: and he sayde unto them: why are ye fearfull?

Quotations
He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate. &mdash;Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet

Synonyms for Allay
alleviate, check, repress, assuage, appease, abate, subdue, destroy, compose, soothe, calm, quiet, pacify, mollify, tranquilize, compose, relieve.

Antonyms for Allay
arouse, excite, agitate, stir, rouse, provoke, kindle.

Thesaurus
abate; alleviate; anesthetize; appease; assuage; attemper; balm; bank the fire; benumb; blunt; calm; chasten; cloy; compose; conciliate; constrain; control; cool; cram; cushion; damp; dampen; de-emphasize; deaden; deaden the pain; defuse; deliver; diminish; disburden; disembarrass; disencumber; downplay; dulcify; dull; ease; ease matters; engorge; extenuate; feast; feed; fill; fill up; foment; free; give relief; glut; gorge; gratify; jade; keep within bounds; lay; lay the dust; lenify; lessen; lighten; lull; mitigate; moderate; modulate; mollify; numb; obtund; overdose; overfeed; overfill; overgorge; oversaturate; overstuff; pacify; pad; pall; palliate; placate; play down; poultice; pour balm into; pour balm on; pour oil on; propitiate; quench; quiet; quieten; reduce; reduce the temperature; regale; release; relieve; restrain; salve; sate; satiate; satisfy; saturate; settle; slacken; slake; slow down; smooth; smooth down; smooth over; smother; sober; sober down; soften; soothe; stifle; still; stuff; stupe; subdue; supersaturate; suppress; surfeit; tame; temper; tone down; tranquilize; tune down; underplay; weaken

Etymology
From alecgan:, from, corresponding to a-: + lecgan:. Cognate with German erlegen:. In Middle English the word was identical to forms of allege: and alloy:, leading to much overlapping of senses.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:


 * Romanian: ,
 * Spanish: aquietar, calmar
 * Welsh: tawelu


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: aliviar, mitigar

Anagrams

 * Layla