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allayverb to make more bearable or less severea gentle breeze would allay the heat alleviate, assuage, ease, help, mitigate, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe abate, lighten, moderate, soften, tempercure, heal, remedyamend, correct, emend, fix, mend, rectify, reform, repairameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine aggravate, exacerbate harm, hurt, impair, injureheighten, intensify, sharpen relieve, alleviate, lighten, assuage, mitigate, allay mean to make something less grievous.relieve implies a lifting of enough of a burden to make it tolerable.took an aspirin to relieve the pain alleviate implies temporary or partial lessening of pain or distress.the lotion alleviated the itching lighten implies reducing a burdensome or depressing weight.good news would lighten our worries assuage implies softening or sweetening what is harsh or disagreeable.ocean breezes assuaged the intense heat mitigate suggests a moderating or countering of the effect of something violent or painful.the need to mitigate barbaric laws allay implies an effective calming or soothing of fears or alarms.allayed their fears before the 12th century |