| pall | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. chill, pall | a sudden numbing dread. |
| ~ apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread | fearful expectation or anticipation.; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. cerement, pall, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet | burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped. |
| ~ burial garment | cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall | hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window). |
| ~ screen, blind | a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight.; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet" |
| ~ drop cloth, drop curtain, drop | a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery. |
| ~ eyelet, eyehole | 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 | a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves. |
| ~ frontal | a drapery that covers the front of an altar. |
| ~ furnishing | (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable. |
| ~ portiere | a heavy curtain hung across a doorway. |
| ~ shower curtain | a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area. |
| ~ theater curtain, theatre curtain | a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance. |
| v. (change) | 4. dull, pall | become less interesting or attractive. |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off | cause to lose courage.; "dashed by the refusal" |
| ~ intimidate, restrain | to compel or deter by or as if by threats. |
| v. (contact) | 6. pall | cover with a pall. |
| ~ cover | provide with a covering or cause to be covered.; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" |
| v. (consumption) | 7. cloy, pall | cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing.; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" |
| ~ replete, sate, satiate, fill | fill to satisfaction.; "I am sated" |
| v. (change) | 8. pall | cause to become flat.; "pall the beer" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ become flat, pall, die | lose sparkle or bouquet.; "wine and beer can pall" |
| v. (change) | 9. become flat, die, pall | lose sparkle or bouquet.; "wine and beer can pall" |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (change) | 10. 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" |
| v. (body) | 11. fatigue, jade, pall, tire, weary | lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" |
| ~ degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop | grow worse.; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" |
| ~ 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 | lose interest.; "he retired from life when his wife died" |
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