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pall

noun

1 pall

A sudden numbing dread.

synonym: chill.

Roget 999: canonicals, vestments; robe, gown, Geneva gown frock, pallium, surplice, cassock, dalmatic, scapulary, cope, mozetta, scarf, ... show more

2 pall

Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.

synonyms: cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet.

Roget 363: interment, burial, sepulture; inhumation; obsequies, exequies; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation.    funeral, funeral rite, ... show more

Dutch: doodshemd, doodskleed, lijkkleed, lijkwa, lijkwade, rouwkleed, wade
Polish: całun

3 pall

Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window).

synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle.

Roget 225: clothing, investment; covering etc. 223; dress, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; ... show more

Roget 747: scepter, regalia, caduceus; Mercury's rod, Mercury's staff, Mercury's wand; rod of empire, mace, fasces, wand; staff, staff of office; baton, truncheon; ... show more

Dutch: lijkkleed, doek, gordijn, voorhangsel
Polish: zasłona

verb

1 pall

Become less interesting or attractive.

synonym: dull.

Roget 867: mislike misrelish, dislike, disrelish; mind, object to; have rather not, would rather not, prefer not to, not care for; have a dislike for, conceive a dislike to, entertain a dislike for, take a dislike to, ... show more

Roget 395: be unpalatable etc. adj.; sicken, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the stomach.   

Roget 376: be insensible etc. adj.; have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide.    render insensible etc. adj.; anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb, ... show more

2 pall

Cause to lose courage.

synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off.

Dutch: ontmoedigen, overweldigen, afschrikken

3 pall

Cover with a pall.

4 pall

Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing.

synonym: cloy.

Roget 869: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut.   , gorge, surfeit; bore etc. (weary) ... show more

5 pall

Cause to become flat.

6 pall

Lose sparkle or bouquet:
— Wine and beer can pall.

synonyms: become flat, die.

7 pall

Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to).

8 pall

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.

synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary.

Roget 841: weary; tire etc. (fatigue) 688; bore; bore to death, weary to death, tire to death, bore out of one's skull, bore out of one's life, weary out of one's life, tire out of one's life, bore out of all patience, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: allay, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, blackout, blanket, bore, censorship, cerecloth, cerements, cloak, cloth, cloy, coat, cold water, cover, coverage, covering, covert ... show more.

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