0 past simple and past participle of allay
1 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:
This procedure should ensure that concerns over possible bias caused by using a purely systematic method of collection are allayed.
This shock led commentators and practitioners (many of whose doubts had never been fully allayed) publicly to recant.
The poor man's hunger is allayed to the satisfaction of his spectators.
My initial scepticism about the possibility, within a single book, of addressing all these issues was (for the main part) allayed, as the chapters unfolded their arguments.
It is clear that the assurances which they have been given over a number of years have not allayed this concern.
That concern does not appear to have been allayed by the generalities expressed in another place.
So that is a way in which the fears about indiscriminate land disposal and development could be allayed.
This allayed our main concerns with the 1998 supplementary budget and the 1999 budget.
