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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



... in France she had not retired to the convent, but was still in the Court. We became and continued very intimate until she took the veil. I was deeply affected when this charming person took that resolution; and, at the moment when the funeral pall was thrown over her, I shed so many tears that I could see no more. She visited me after the ceremony, and told me that I should rather congratulate than weep for her, for that from that moment her happiness was to begin: she added that she should never forget ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... light did not pass away at once; they continued for seconds that seemed like an eternity. Earth and stones pelted down around them; choking dust rose. Then the thunder and the earth-shock were over; above, incandescent vapors swirled, and darkened into an overhanging pall of smoke and dust. ...
— Genesis • H. Beam Piper
... the end of a sultry July day, the last ray of the sun shooting down Pall Mall sweltering with dust; there was a crowd round the doors of the Carlton and the Reform Clubs, and every now and then an express arrived with the agitating bulletin of a fresh defeat or a new triumph. Coningsby was walking up Pall ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli
... suddenly all four of them broke cover together, the old black-maned lion leading by a few yards. I never saw a more splendid sight in all my hunting experience than those four lions bounding across the veldt, overshadowed by the dense pall of smoke and backed by the fiery furnace of the ...
— Long Odds • H. Rider Haggard
... for the pall," he faltered, "and leave the Sword of Conquest with him! No other hands will ever be ...
— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston


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