Usually means: Reduce or diminish; make less.
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  1. allay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. allay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. allay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. allay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. allay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Allay, allay: Wordnik
  7. allay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. allay: Wiktionary
  9. allay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. allay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. allay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Allay, allay: Dictionary.com
  13. allay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. allay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Allay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. allay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. allay: Rhymezone
  18. allay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. allay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. allay: Free Dictionary
  21. allay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. allay: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. allay: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. allay: Legal dictionary

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  1. allay: Encyclopedia

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  1. Allay: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
verb:  (transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.
verb:  (archaic) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
verb:  (archaic, by extension) To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.
noun:  Alleviation; abatement; check.
noun:  (obsolete) An alloy.

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