(v. t.) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
(v. t.) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity.
(v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.
(n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.
(n.) Alloy.
(v. t.) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A diagnostic approach and some management procedures that include eliminating all oral irritants, correcting predisposing systemic disease, and most important of all, allaying anxiety that induces parafunctional mouth habits.
(2) Although barium meal examination improves diagnostic confidence and allays patients' anxiety, fully utilising communication skills at the initial consultation might allay anxiety more economically.
(3) Truss will seek to allay parents' fears of their children being neglected by over-pressed staff, pointing out that the relaxation she proposes still leaves more restrictive ratios than Denmark, France and Germany – three countries often seen as providing high quality care for pre-school children.
(4) The findings suggest a need for public education about the vaccine, with particular emphasis directed at allaying fears about side effects.
(5) These feelings were allayed by counseling, but there was evidence of some residual unease.
(6) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(7) The results allayed concerns of a cruciate ligament injury but revealed damage to the lateral collateral ligament, which can result in a three-month lay-off.
(8) He requires patience, understanding, and repeated explanations to allay his apprehension and anxiety.
(9) Truss will seek to allay parents' fears of their children being neglected by overpressed staff, pointing out that the relaxation she proposes still leaves more restrictive ratios than Denmark, France and Germany – three countries often cited as providing high-quality care for pre-school children.
(10) Proper pharmacologic preparation of the patient will allay anxiety, increase comfort, and reduce the overall quantity of anesthetic needed.
(11) Experience has shown that simple information-giving alone does little to allay the panic in the general population and in hospital personnel.
(12) The first task of the new government was to allay those fears, to reassure the 27 that when Farage turned up at the European parliamen t after the referendum, like a drunk taunting an ex-wife at a cocktail party, he did not speak for Britain.
(13) However, the BBC has sought to allay criticism of its talent costs by publishing salary bands for the pay of top stars.
(14) This feeling allays anxiety and depressive affects, and the patient comes to experience the analyst as a soother.
(15) Help in coping with the fears and in allaying the anxiety of their husbands was most required in those with mild disease and those in whom it had progressed to become socially disabling, but without confining the patients to their homes.
(16) But Abbott has made it clear he will not stand aside, and is seeking to allay his colleague’s concerns and quell the dissent, including about the powerful role played by his chief of staff, Peta Credlin .
(17) Various mechanisms exist to at least partially allay the fears and anxiety of this period, generally through the use of a multidisciplinary approach.
(18) This trial also suggested that women's anxiety was actually increased during scans, and then allayed by positive feedback from the operator.
(19) The campaign, launched on Sunday , seeks to allay the misconception that the higher education contribution scheme (Hecs) is being abolished under changes yet to pass parliament, and says the federal government “will continue to pay around half your undergraduate degree”.
(20) The results suggest that in circumstances where parents are to be excluded from induction, adequate preoperative explanation and sedative premedication would contribute to allaying parental anxiety, but that a flexible policy may be most appropriate.
Alley
Definition:
(n.) A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
(n.) A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
(n.) A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
(n.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
(n.) The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
(n.) A choice taw or marble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defensively excellent, Sampson’s players persistently forced their opponents to construct their passing triangles down a series of cul-de-sacs and blind alleys.
(2) The animals, while still under the influence of the haloperidol, were then given six standard trials of running down the alley.
(3) In that frenzy of notes, I saw myself running from soldiers through the alleys of Al Amari.
(4) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
(5) As the report explains, researchers have long pointed to a widely believed cultural script of what constitutes a “real” rape – the trope of the lone lady being attacked at night as she made her way home through dark alleys.
(6) And Chalmers alley-oop pass to LeBron who dunks it, the Heat are still here.
(7) His first serve is a memory and his forehand hits the doubles alley.
(8) The decision of entering the main alley depends on the "reference memory", of entering the alleys in the proper sequence, depends on the "working memory".
(9) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
(10) Testing consisted of a single trial per day during which latencies to leave the start box and to traverse the alley were recorded.
(11) "Because people didn't see me falling out of clubs or shagging in the alleys with different girls every week, they thought something was wrong with me.
(12) The open drain down his alley overflows with black sewage.
(13) after completion of infusion, each rat was placed in the maze and observed under "blind" conditions for number of errors (blind alleys entered) and latency to reach reward.
(14) (6) All unoperated cats committed alley-entrance errors as well as door-push errors suggesting that commission of alley-entrance errors may reflect a normal process in two-choice learning.
(15) Research and theory in the field is judged to be at a choice point: advance to interesting and important problems integrated with biobehavioral research or enter a blind alley of pseudo-problems derived from computer metaphors and cognitive folk psychology.
(16) Damage of areas containig nigrostriatal dopaminergic or ascending noradrenergic neurons had negligible effects on bar pressing, tail moving and alley running for hypothalamic stimulation.
(17) Rats had to enter and run down an alley for water reward.
(18) We walk down the narrow alley lined with boutiques, past carts selling tteokbokki , the ubiquitous gelatinous rice cakes swimming in a spicy red sauce (which taste much nicer than they sound).
(19) Here, the decorticates showed difficulty both in learning to pull the ball out of the alley and in transferring to a push-type clearance response, but having transferred they coped well with subsequent reversals.
(20) More importantly, these experimental studies provide us a route (perhaps an escape route) from the blind-ending alleys of the current taxonomy of human malformations and place us squarely on the superhighway to understanding their pathogenesis.