Word Meanings - ALLAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to, AS. alecgan; a- + lecgan to lay; but confused with old forms of allege, alloy, alegge. 1. To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

Additional info about word: ALLAY

to, AS. alecgan; a- + lecgan to lay; but confused with old forms of allege, alloy, alegge. 1. To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions. 2. To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison. Shak. Syn. -- To alleviate; check; repress; assuage; appease; abate; subdue; destroy; compose; soothe; calm; quiet. See Alleviate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ALLAY)

• Calm
• Smooth
• pacify
• compose
• allay
• still
• soothe
• appease
• assuage
• quiet
• tranquilize
• Compose
• Construct
• compile
• calm
• put together
• constitute
• draw up
• frame
• form
• mitigate
• settle
• adjust
• write
• Cool Ventilate
• refrigerate
• damp
• temper
• moderate
• Lay
• Place
• establish
• deposit
• prostrate
• arrange
• dispose
• put
• spread
• set down
• Moderate
• Control
• soften
• regulate
• repress
• govern

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ALLAY)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to ALLAY)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.