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31allay, alleviate, assuage, relieve — Alleviate should suggest giving temporary relief without removing the underlying cause of a problem. It is close in meaning to ease, a fact obviously unknown to the writer of this sentence: ◘ It will ease the transit squeeze, but will not… …
32allay, alleviate, assuage, relieve — Alleviate should suggest giving temporary relief without removing the underlying cause of a problem. It is close in meaning to ease, a fact obviously unknown to the writer of this sentence: ◘ It will ease the transit squeeze, but will not… …
33allay — Synonyms and related words: abate, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, balm, bank the fire, benumb, blunt, calm, chasten, cloy, compose, conciliate, constrain, control, cool, cram, cushion, damp, dampen, de emphasize, deaden,… …
34allay — [OE] In Old English, alecgan meant literally ‘lay aside’ ( a ‘away, aside, out’, lecgan ‘lay’). The more recent senses ‘relieve, mitigate’ developed from the 13th to the 15th centuries owing to the influence of two formally similar Old French… …
35allay — al·lay || É™ leɪ v. relieve; calm; alleviate pain; alleviate fear …
36allay v — alimony n …
37allay — [ə leɪ] verb diminish or end (fear or concern). ↘alleviate (pain or hunger). Origin OE ālecgan lay down or aside , of Gmc origin …
38allay — v. a. 1. Repress, restrain, check, subdue, lay, silence, appease, pacify, compose, calm, quiet, still, lull, hush, tranquillize, smooth. 2. Assuage, alleviate, soothe, soften, mitigate, solace, moderate, mollify, temper, attemper, lessen, lighten …
39allay — v 1. calm, lull, put to rest; quiet, still, silence, hush; soften, assuage, mollify, smooth over; soothe, compose, tranquilize, pacify, appease, Sl. simmer down; quell, lay, check, curb, suppress, repress. 2. lessen, relieve, moderate, temper,… …
40allay — al·lay …
