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Pall   /pɑl/  /pɔl/   Listen
Pall

noun
1.
A sudden numbing dread.  Synonym: chill.
2.
Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.  Synonyms: cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet.
3.
Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window).  Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle.
verb
(past & past part. palled; pres. part. palling)
1.
Become less interesting or attractive.  Synonym: dull.
2.
Cause to lose courage.  Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off.
3.
Cover with a pall.
4.
Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing.  Synonym: cloy.
5.
Cause to become flat.
6.
Lose sparkle or bouquet.  Synonyms: become flat, die.
7.
Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to).
8.
Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.  Synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary.



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"Pall" Quotes from Famous Books



... rich queen in hall was set; Knights her served, at hand and feet, In rich robes of pall: In the floor a cloth was laid; "The poor palmer," the steward said, "Shall sit above you all." Meat and drink forth they brought; He sat still, and ate right nought, But looked about the hall. So mickle he saw of game and glee (Swiche mirthis he was wont to ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... to pall. The position of school doctor, newly created by the Board of Education at the close of the spring term, carried no munificent salary. The young practitioner had grasped at the opening because the routine work offered golden opportunities for ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... was originally a coffee house on the south side of Pall Mall. When there grew up a need for "places of resort of a more elegant and refined character," chocolate houses came into vogue, and the COCOA-TREE was the most famous of these. It was converted into a club ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... she bears her full share of the heavy sorrow that rests, like a pall, over the people of the whole country as they witness this glorious fabric, which our fathers erected and cemented with their blood and their prayers—trembling, shattered, and dismembered. In the conciliatory spirit of my State, I, as a Jerseyman, ...
— A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention • Lucius Eugene Chittenden
... and the night began to lift. Vague unusual objects slowly took shape, like gloomy spectres emerging from impenetrable fastnesses. Blackness gave way to a faint drab pall; then the cold, unearthly grey of the still remote dawn came stealing across ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon


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