Definition of pall Pall
/pɑˈl/ - [pal] - pall
We found 33 definitions of pall from 6 different sources.
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WordNet
NounPlural: palls |
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| pall - burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | ||
| shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes | ||
| burial garment cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial | ||
| pall - hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | ||
| curtain, drape, drapery, mantle | ||
| blind, screen a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet" | ||
| furnishing the act of decorating a house or room | ||
| drop curtain, drop cloth, drop a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery | ||
| eyehole, eyelet a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar | ||
| festoon flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | ||
| frontal a drapery that covers the front of an altar | ||
| portiere a heavy curtain hung across a doorway | ||
| shower curtain a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area | ||
| pall - a sudden numbing dread | ||
| chill | ||
| apprehensiveness, dread, apprehension the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar" | ||
Verb |
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| pall - cover with a pall | ||
| cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" | ||
| pall - cause to become flat; "pall the beer" | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| pall - become less interesting or attractive | ||
| dull | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| pall - lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her" | ||
| weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" | ||
| pall - lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" | ||
| tire, weary, fatigue, jade | ||
| degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated" | ||
| poop out, conk out, peter out, run down, run out use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out" | ||
| retire, withdraw cause to get out; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base" | ||
| pall - cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" | ||
| daunt, dash, scare off, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare | ||
| intimidate, restrain make timid or fearful; "Her boss intimidates her" | ||
| pall - cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" | ||
| cloy | ||
| replete, sate, satiate, fill fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" | ||
| pall - lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" | ||
| die, become flat | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- pall (Noun)
Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes. - pall (Noun)
A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church. - pall (Noun)
A heavy canvas, especially laid over a coffin or tomb. - pall (Noun)
nausea. - pall (Verb)
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. - pall (Verb)
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- pall (n.)
Same as Pawl. - pall (n.)
An outer garment; a cloak mantle. - pall (n.)
A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. - pall (n.)
Same as Pallium. - pall (n.)
A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. - pall (n.)
A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. - pall (n.)
A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice. - pall (v. t.)
To cloak. - pall (a.)
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. - pall (v. t.)
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. - pall (v. t.)
To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. - pall (n.)
Nausea.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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pall
pawl, n. a cloak or mantle, an outer garment: a chalice-cover: (her.) a Y-shaped bearing charged with crosses patté fitché, as in the arms of the see of Canterbury—sometimes reversed: a pallium (q.v.): a curtain or covering: the cloth over a coffin at a funeral: that which brings deep sorrow.—n. Pall′-bear′er, one of the mourners at a funeral who used to hold up the corners of the pall. [A.S. pæll, purple cloth—L. palla, a mantle; cf. Pallium, a cloak.] -
pall
pawl, v.i. to become vapid, insipid, or wearisome.—v.t. to make vapid: to dispirit or depress. [W. pallu, to fail, pall, failure.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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pall
A companion. One who generally accompanies another, or who commit robberies together.
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