Usually means: Reduces, diminishes intensity or fear.
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  1. allays: Merriam-Webster
  2. allays: Collins English Dictionary
  3. allays: Vocabulary.com
  4. Allays, allays: Wordnik
  5. allays: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. allays: Wiktionary
  7. allays: Dictionary.com
  8. allays: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. allays: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. allays: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (allay)

verb:  (transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
verb:  (transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.
verb:  (archaic) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
verb:  (archaic, by extension) To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.
noun:  Alleviation; abatement; check.
noun:  (obsolete) An alloy.
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