Pall
WordNet
noun
(1) Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
(2) Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
(3) A sudden numbing dread
verb
(4) Get tired of something or somebody
(5) Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
"The course palled on her"
(6) Become less interesting or attractive
(7) Lose sparkle or bouquet
"Wine and beer can pall"
(8) Cause to become flat
"Pall the beer"
(9) Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
"Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
(10) Cover with a pall
(11) Cause to lose courage
"Dashed by the refusal"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
- A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
- A heavy canvas, especially laid over a coffin or tomb.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate (2006), page 150:
- Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate (2006), page 150:
Verb
- To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
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