Meaning of allay in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• Alleviation; abatement; check.

• An alloy.

verb

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

  Example: to allay popular excitement

• To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.

  Example: to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity

• To subside, abate, become peaceful.

• To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.

• (by extension) To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.