Usually means: Reducing or diminishing fear, worry.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. allaying: Merriam-Webster
  2. allaying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. allaying: Vocabulary.com
  4. Allaying, allaying: Wordnik
  5. allaying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. allaying: Wiktionary
  7. Allaying, allaying: Dictionary.com
  8. allaying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Allaying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Allaying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. allaying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. allaying: FreeDictionary.org
  13. allaying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allaying: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  An allayment.

Similar:
assuage, relieve, ease, still, quench, slake, allayment, placation, allegeance, alleviation, more...

Opposite:
exacerbating, intensifying, aggravating

Types:
quelling, calming, relieving, soothing, easing, mitigating, palliating, more...

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Similar:
assuage, relieve, ease, still, quench, slake, allayment, placation, allegeance, alleviation, more...

Opposite:
exacerbating, intensifying, aggravating

Types:
quelling, calming, relieving, soothing, easing, mitigating, palliating, more...



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