Allay is valid Scrabble Word

Is allay a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for ALLAY in dictionary:

VERB:

to reduce in intensity or severity, also ALAY, ALEYE
relieve or alleviate (pain or hunger)
diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry)
reduce (fear or anger)
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.
To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity.
To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.
To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
lessen the intensity of or calm
satisfy (thirst)

NOUN:

Alleviation; abatement; check.
Alloy.

Words related to ALLAY

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Words that contain ALLAY

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How to use ALLAY in a sentence

The epithet flattered but did not allay her timidity.
But though he tried to allay his fear with such resolutions he remained uneasy all that day.
I write this note to allay all anxiety on the part of George Eliot as to my appreciation of the merits of this most promising opening of a picture of life.
But while these thoughts assuage our grief, they can not wholly allay it.
And as water quencheth fire, so doth true knowledge allay mental disquietude.
In travel by sea, Gilbert tells us the four chief indications are to prevent nausea, to allay vomiting, to palliate the foul odor of the ship and to quiet thirst.
To allay the suspicions of his parishioners, the padre announced that he used the insects in making medicines.
They were seized by a mad frenzy, which was the harder to allay as its cause was a mystery.
He felt he had raised a storm which it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to allay.
He had used every means which human skill could devise to allay the anger of the Indians.

They would have proceeded in like manner to the treatment of Ralph, but that Guy Rivers himself interposed to allay, and otherwise direct their fury.
My Ministers earnestly strove to allay the causes of strife and to appease differences with which my empire was not concerned.
In the Southwest they do not wash their beasts of burden until the mischief is done and they have to allay the swelling and heal up the cuts.
For that reason, then, the commander, to allay the fears caused in Nueva Espana by the delay, called a council, according to his custom.
She was generally called a pretty girl, from having a pair of exceeding fine black eyes, only with the allay of something cunning in their look.
While Lord North was endeavouring to allay the bad passions of the Irish people, a spirit of disaffection arose in England.
But resolutions and decrees, and even the sword, were still impotent to allay the rash fury of the populace.
Tom did his best to allay their concern, but finally allowed himself to be hustled up to bed.
The men tightened their belts to stay their hunger, and splashed salt water on their chests to allay their thirst.
Allay the pain with all convenient speed, but have a care of using strong remedies.
One is a return to simple living under conditions which quiet the restless nerves, allay the greedy appetites, and restore the central will.
Yet, despite his reasoning, Joe could not allay his fears.
Within a few weeks he received a letter from Welsley, alarming only because its intention was so obviously to allay alarm.
Through all Judea the youth were ardent for war, while the elders vainly endeavoured to allay the frenzy.
My grandfather had said nothing to allay my doubts as to Marion Devereuxâ€™s strange conduct, and yet his confidence in her was apparently unshaken.
This clause, it is said, was also intended to allay the fears of public creditors, who apprehended that a change in the government would release the nation from its obligations.

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