PALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pall mean? 

• PALL (noun)
  The noun PALL has 3 senses:

1. a sudden numbing dread

2. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

3. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

  Familiarity information: PALL used as a noun is uncommon.

• PALL (verb)
  The verb PALL has 8 senses:

1. become less interesting or attractive

2. cause to lose courage

3. cover with a pall

4. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

5. cause to become flat

6. lose sparkle or bouquet

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

8. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

  Familiarity information: PALL used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sudden numbing dread

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

chill; pall

Hypernyms ("pall" is a kind of...):

apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread (fearful expectation or anticipation)

Derivation:

pall (cause to lose courage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cerement; pall; shroud; winding-clothes; winding-sheet

Hypernyms ("pall" is a kind of...):

burial garment (cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial)

Derivation:

pall (cover with a pall)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

curtain; drape; drapery; mantle; pall

Hypernyms ("pall" is a kind of...):

furnishing ((usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable)

blind; screen (a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight)

Meronyms (parts of "pall"):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pall"):

drop; drop cloth; drop curtain (a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery)

festoon (a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves)

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)

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)

Derivation:

pall (cover with a pall)

• PALL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pall    ... he / she / it palls   
Past simple: palled   
Past participle: palled   
-ing form: palling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become less interesting or attractive

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

dull; pall

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to lose courage

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

dash; daunt; frighten away; frighten off; pall; scare; scare away; scare off

Context example:

dashed by the refusal

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

intimidate (to compel or deter by or as if by threats)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

pall (a sudden numbing dread)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cover with a pall

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

pall (hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window))

pall (burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

cloy; pall

Context example:

Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

fill; replete; sate; satiate (fill to satisfaction)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cause to become flat

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

pall the beer

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Cause:

become flat; die; pall (lose sparkle or bouquet)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Lose sparkle or bouquet

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

become flat; die; pall

Context example:

wine and beer can pall

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 7

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the course palled on her

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

weaken (become weaker)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 8

Meaning:

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary

Context example:

I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

degenerate; deteriorate; devolve; drop (grow worse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pall"):

conk out; peter out; poop out; run down; run out (use up all one's strength and energy and stop working)

retire; withdraw (lose interest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Some sort of shadowy pall seems to be coming over our happiness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Again, Miss Murdstone, in a black velvet gown, that looks as if it had been made out of a pall, follows close upon me; then my mother; then her husband.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The grey light of day that remained lasted until three o'clock, when it, too, faded, and the pall of the Arctic night descended upon the lone and silent land.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Their bid was low pleasure, narrow as the grave, that palled, and the grave was at the end of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And what little there was,—the slapping of a few reef-points and the creaking of a sheave in a block or two,—was ghostly under the hollow echoing pall in which we were swathed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Oh, my friend John, but it was butcher work; had I not been nerved by thoughts of other dead, and of the living over whom hung such a pall of fear, I could not have gone on.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So much so that all the rest seemed to take courage, as if infected somewhat with her gaiety; as a result even I myself felt as if the pall of gloom which weighs us down were somewhat lifted.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then came another rush of sea-fog, greater than any hitherto—a mass of dank mist, which seemed to close on all things like a grey pall, and left available to men only the organ of hearing, for the roar of the tempest, and the crash of the thunder, and the booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion even louder than before.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)