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— English words —

• allay v. (Transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
• allay v. (Transitive) To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
• allay v. (Intransitive, obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.
• allay v. (Archaic) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
• allay v. (Archaic, by extension) To make worse by the introduction of inferior elements.
• allay n. Alleviation; abatement; check.
• allay n. (Obsolete) An alloy.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Quechua
  • allay n. Harvest or digging up of potatoes or tubers.
  • allay v. (Transitive) to dig, dig up, dig out, excavate; to harvest tubers.

— English words, defined in French —

• allay v. Émousser, amortir, adoucir, assourdir, engourdir.
• allay v. Soulager.
• allay v. Apaiser, pacifier.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• allay v. Aplacar.

46 English words from 9 English definitions

abate abatement alleviate Alleviation alloy appease Archaic at␣rest baser become by␣extension calm check deteriorate dig digging digging␣up dig␣out dig␣up elements excavate extension harvest inferior Intransitive introduction make metal metals mitigate mix obsolete out pacify peaceful potatoes put quell quiet rest subside the Transitive tubers with worse

1 English word from 4 foreign definitions

pacifier

8 foreign words from 4 foreign definitions

adoucir amortir Apaiser Aplacar assourdir Émousser engourdir Soulager

11 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

allays allayed allayer allayers allayest allayeth allaying allayable allayings allayment allayments

6 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unallayed basal␣layer basal␣layers unallayable epitaxial␣layer epitaxial␣layers

7 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

all ALL -all all- Alla lay Lay

9 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

all ALL -all all- Alla yall y'all ya'll yalla

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

Layla yalla

8 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

acylal alanyl allays Allday all-day all␣day anally Laylah

15 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

alay Alla ally Ally -ally Laal lala Lala la-la laya Lyla Yala yall y'all ya'll

15 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

adlay Albay Alday allah Allah Allam Allan allat Allat alley Alley alloy Altay alway ollay

5 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

alay Alla ally Ally -ally

3 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Allday all-day all␣day

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