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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



... stood, and found that all his left had given way, and got down the hill which was behind our line, ranged a little above the brow thereof, so that in the twinkling of an eye in a manner, our men, as well as the enemy, were out of sight, being got down pall mall to the ...
— The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) - (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) • James Pringle Thomson

... and, from time to time, the diligent reader does not know exactly where he is. He begins with some episode in which DIZZY, with arm affectionately linked with that of MCCULLAGH TORRENS, is walking along Pall Mall, when a passing Bishop obsequiously takes off his hat and bows. MCCULLAGH modestly says this obeisance was paid to DIZZY, but we know very well it was to MCCULLAGH. Then, before we know where we are, we are in the middle of an ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 • Various

... so widely separated the different suites of apartments, that Diane and Eustacie had not met after the pall-mall party till they sat opposite to their several queens in the coach driving through the woods, the elder cousin curiously watching the eyes of the younger, so wistfully gazing at the window, and now and then rapidly winking as though to ...
— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... words have a weird sepulchral tone that echoes far and near through the spacious halls and avenues that makes the black pall of mystery all the more uncanny. As you first enter on your journey on this stream of inky blackness you are appalled by the awful darkness, and the stillness so intense is like that of some vast primeval forest at midnight. The ceiling is so ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... relieve. Believe me, you will find more joy in one beneficent action; and in your cool moments you will be more happy with the reflection of having made any person so, who without your assistance would have been miserable, than in the enjoyment of all the pleasures of sense (which pall in the using), and of all the pomps and gaudy show of the world. Live within your circumstances, by which means you will have it in your power to do good to others. Above all things, continue in your loyalty to his present Majesty, and the succession to the crown ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume III. • Mrs. Thomson


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