0 If you allay a strong emotion felt by someone, such as fear or worry, you cause them to feel it less or to feel calm again:
1 to make a negative emotion less strong or a problem less difficult:
My aim is merely to allay worries about holding ethical theories answerable to moral norms in the way that my present proposal does.
This meant that only such incidents as were amenable to this kind of proof could be considered, but it allays scepticism about the woman's allegations.
Thus, for many of these children, the natural basis for allaying fear is also a source of their threat.
Yet once one has identified problems in known material it is difficult to allay suspicion.
Considerable care was taken to allay anxieties about the constitutional implications of this particular marriage.
On the other hand, to the extent that the novel is a literary genre, it helps allay the concern that cultural studies displaces literary studies.
This procedure should ensure that concerns over possible bias caused by using a purely systematic method of collection are allayed.
The fact that there are other potential entrepreneurs that could take over if the incumbent shirks its duties helps allay such fears.
