Allay
verb
To lessen or reduce strong emotions or fears.
The police were able to allay the crowd's fears by explaining the situation.
Often appears as...
- allay fears
- allay concerns
verb
To calm or pacify.
She managed to allay the child's fears about the thunderstorm.
Often appears as...
- allay fears
- allay worries
verb
To lessen or reduce strong emotions or fears.
The police were able to allay the crowd's fears by explaining the situation.
Often appears as...
- allay fears
- allay concerns
verb
To calm or pacify.
She managed to allay the child's fears about the thunderstorm.
Often appears as...
- allay fears
- allay worries
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Relief
Used when someone or something reduces intense feelings, not just general discomfort.
The principal's speech allayed parents' concerns about school safety.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Temporary
The relief provided by 'allaying' is usually short-term, until the situation is resolved.
The company's statement allayed investors' fears but only for a few days.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Physical
Allay is about easing non-physical issues, like worries or doubts, not physical pain.
The manager's plan allayed staff doubts about the new project.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Relief
Used when someone or something reduces intense feelings, not just general discomfort.
The principal's speech allayed parents' concerns about school safety.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Temporary
The relief provided by 'allaying' is usually short-term, until the situation is resolved.
The company's statement allayed investors' fears but only for a few days.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Physical
Allay is about easing non-physical issues, like worries or doubts, not physical pain.
The manager's plan allayed staff doubts about the new project.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Relief
Used when someone or something reduces intense feelings, not just general discomfort.
The principal's speech allayed parents' concerns about school safety.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Temporary
The relief provided by 'allaying' is usually short-term, until the situation is resolved.
The company's statement allayed investors' fears but only for a few days.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Physical
Allay is about easing non-physical issues, like worries or doubts, not physical pain.
The manager's plan allayed staff doubts about the new project.
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A provocative way to...
such that this international currency is never more than five percent of global foreign exchange reserves. That's important because it would allay well, let's say, the ridiculous concerns that the US might have
Video examples
A provocative way to...
such that this international currency is never more than five percent of global foreign exchange reserves. That's important because it would allay well, let's say, the ridiculous concerns that the US might have
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Quote examples
Jakob Bohme
German Theologian
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.
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Henry Louis Gates
American Critic
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
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Zachary Taylor
American President
I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.
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Mel Gibson
Actor
What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.
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Simone de Beauvoir
French Writer
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Lauren Weisberger
American Novelist
There is no panic you can't allay, no problem you can't solve.
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Jakob Bohme
German Theologian
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.
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Henry Louis Gates
American Critic
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
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Zachary Taylor
American President
I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.
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Mel Gibson
Actor
What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.
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Simone de Beauvoir
French Writer
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Lauren Weisberger
American Novelist
There is no panic you can't allay, no problem you can't solve.
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