pall
To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pallTo cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
» The lengthy lecture palled on me.
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3 senses(transitive)To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
cover with a pall
(transitive)To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
(intransitive)To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
The liquor palls.
lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
Examples
6 sentencesThe lengthy lecture palled on me.
A pall of darkness cloaked the valley.
The city is being blanketed again today by a thick pall of smoke from nearby bushfires.
News that Tom had taken a job with another firm cast a pall over the departmental lunch.
Sami found Layla's call and he palled over to call her back.
Origin
From the noun pall (“cloth”). Formed by aphesis from appal, appall (“(obsolete) to make pFrom the noun pall (“cloth”).
Formed by aphesis from appal, appall (“(obsolete) to make pale; to weaken; to become weak; to lose flavour or become stale”), possibly under the influence of the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun pall.
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Forms
palls, palling, palled, palledSynonyms
15 synonyms- become less interesting or attractive:dull
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody:tirewearyfatiguejade
- lose sparkle or bouquet:diebecome flat
- cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing:cloy
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away:dauntdashscare offfrighten offscare awayfrighten awayscare
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.