allay

1. (transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.Examples: "to allay popular excitement"; "to allay the tumult of the passions"; "O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstacy, […]"Synonyms: appease, assuage, compose, soothe, calm, quiettransitive

2. (transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.Examples: "to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity"Synonyms: alleviate, abatetransitive

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.Examples: "And the wynde alayed, and there folowed a greate calme: and he sayde unto them: why are ye fearfull?"; "For raging wind blows up incessant showers, And when the rage allays the rain begins."intransitiveobsolete

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

5. (archaic, by extension) To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.Examples: "Yet far be it from us to condemn all their works to be dross, because debased and allayed with superstitious intents […]"archaicbroadly