To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; lessen:
To lessen, as in discomfort, pressure, or stress:
To lessen or alleviate something, such as pain or a symptom.
Without movement; motionlessly:
To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example).
To satisfy; slake
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To lessen or reduce:
To make suitable, desirable, or free from excess by mingling with something else; reduce in intensity, esp. by the admixture of some other quality; moderate; assuage; mollify
To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
To undermine or reduce the strength, morale, or resistance of.
To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
To reduce is to make something smaller or to become or feel smaller, or forcing someone into a less desirable position.
To lessen the pain or severity of without actually curing; alleviate; ease
To calm or soothe (a feeling, such as anger).
(Archaic) To reduce the rigidity of; soften.
To reduce the excessiveness of (something)
(Archaic) To belittle; minimize; disparage
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(Music) To reduce (a perfect or minor interval) by a semitone.
To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
(Law) To help; aid
(Intransitive) To calm down.
To calm means to soothe and pacify someone to make him free of stress, or to become free of stress yourself.
worsening (antonym)
(Intransitive) To become worse; to get worse; to deteriorate.
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provoking (antonym)
To incite to anger or resentment:
stirring (antonym)
To provoke deliberately; incite. Often used with up :
rousing (antonym)
To cause (someone) to be active, attentive, or excited; stir up.
intensifying (antonym)
heightening (antonym)
To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify.
aggravating (antonym)
To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.
decreasing (related)
To become or cause to become less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.
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increasing (related)
Increase is defined as to become bigger or greater.
Find another word for allaying. In this page you can discover 36 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for allaying, like: abating, easing, relieving, stilling, assuaging, quenching, appeasing, alleviating, tempering, soothing and softening.
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