Definition of allay

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Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..

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Assuage :: Assuage (v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire..
Pacify :: Pacify (v. t.) To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity..
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.
Quiet :: Quiet (v. t.) To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief..
Antipyretic :: Antipyretic (a.) Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever.
Atonic :: Atonic (n.) A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.
Lenitive :: Lenitive (n.) That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative..
Sedative :: Sedative (a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.
Allay :: Allay (n.) Alloy.
Delay :: Delay (n.) To allay; to temper.
Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..
Sedative :: Sedative (n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain..
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
Antiorgastic :: Antiorgastic (a.) Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.
Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity..
Moderate :: Moderate (v. t.) To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind..
Solace :: Solace (n.) To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief..
Cool :: Cool (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate..
Antemetic :: Antemetic (n.) A remedy to check or allay vomiting.
Refrigerant :: Refrigerant (a.) Cooling; allaying heat or fever.
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