(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.
Subside
Definition:
(v. i.) To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
(v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
(v. i.) To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
(2) However, endotoxin-induced wound chamber fluid in C5 D mice showed an increasing leukotactic activity at the same time as the acute inflammatory response subsided in C5 N mice.
(3) Usually it took 3-6 months for majority (61.5%) of reactions subside completely.
(4) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
(5) Because in 21 of 28 patients with acute cholecystitis symptoms and signs subsided within 48 hours of conservative management in hospital, they recommend a two-day trial of conservative management for patients with acute cholecystitis and operation only for those who are not definitely improving under optimal conditions.
(6) The system subsides "en bloc," and it is common practice to offer a modification to the Stokes equation which takes into consideration some function of the porosity of the system.
(7) Appraisal of the results suggested an induction of microsomal enzymes which appeared to be subsiding after the cessation of direct exposure to PCBs.
(8) As an incentive, there should be mass availability of all types of contraceptive devices free of charge to users or at least highly subsidized.
(9) Only when fenestrations were employed did the irritation subside and disappear.
(10) That means that the money being spent on food stamps is money that the government is paying to subsidize company profits: as businesses pay a minimum or near-minimumwage, their workers are forced to turn to government programs to make ends meet.
(11) After a successful second defibrillation, the patient developed Osborn waves, which subsided within a few minutes.
(12) Monosynaptic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) evoked in rat spinal motoneurons by stimulation of a muscle nerve are enhanced during the first few days after section of the muscle nerve before subsiding to subnormal levels.
(13) The authors favor conservative treatment of tennis elbow, starting with cessation of the offending activity and prescription of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and followed by isometric and isotonic exercises when pain and inflammation have subsided.
(14) Violence had subsided by Sunday evening – but not before dozens had been shot or stabbed, leaving 25 dead and 56 injured.
(15) Measurement of serum neopterin levels demonstrated no significant change from baseline during the first 6 h after endotoxin administration, but were elevated two to four-fold at 24 h. In the three subjects in whom it was measured, a two-fold rise of the mean serum neopterin levels persisted at 48 h. The acute inflammatory events initiated by endotoxin administration to normal humans result in a delayed, but sustained, rise in serum neopterin levels which persists well after the acute phase response has subsided.
(16) Antibiotics in acute stage should be instituted as early as possible and should be continued for three weeks after the fever subsides.
(17) Now, with the initial euphoria subsided, the time has come to see just how playable these new gewgaws actually are.
(18) After the cholangitis subsided, ESWL was performed under the direct cholangiography through ENBD and PTBD and excellent results were obtained which are herein reported.
(19) The skin nodules disappeared as the hypercalcaemia resolved and the cytomegalovirus infection subsided.
(20) Injection of water alone caused a mild inflammatory response that subsided rapidly.