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accoy

/əˈkɔɪ/

accoy verb: to soothe, to calm; to assuage, to subdue.

Verb

accoy (third-person singular simple present accoys, present participle accoying, simple past and past participle accoyed)

  1. (obsolete) To soothe, to calm; to assuage, to subdue.
    • Of faire Pæana I received was,
      And oft imbrast, as if that I were hee,
      And with kind words accoyd, vowing great love to mee.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8

accoy meaning in Bengali

accoy in Bengali

শান্ত করা, প্রশমিত করা, দমন করা

Forms of accoy

third-person singular presentaccoys
present participleaccoying
past participleaccoyed
pastaccoyed

Origin of accoy

From Middle French acoyer, from coy (“quiet, calm”). By surface analysis, a- + coy.

Words that rhyme with accoy

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Questions about accoy

What does accoy mean?
Accoy means to soothe, to calm; to assuage, to subdue.
What is accoy in Bengali?
Accoy in Bengali is শান্ত করা, প্রশমিত করা, দমন করা. See Accoy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is accoy?
Accoy is a verb.
How do you pronounce accoy?
Accoy is pronounced /əˈkɔɪ/.
What is the past tense of accoy?
The past tense of accoy is accoyed.

Words near accoy in the dictionary

  1. accoutring
  2. accowardize
  3. accowardized
  4. accowardizes
  5. accowardizing
  6. accoy
  7. Accoya
  8. accoyed
  9. accoying
  10. accoys
  11. ACCP

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accoy (page history and authors); accoy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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