allay
verb (used with object)
to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet.
was allaying
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past progressiveof allay.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Even he felt that by merely declaring he had "sources" -- never mind who or where -- he was allaying suspicions that he might be making it all up.
From Time Magazine Archive
While he was allaying Jacobinical zeal and royalist bigotry, could Britons afford to keep up internal causes of friction, and, disunited among themselves, face a hostile world in arms?
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
