Defenition of the word pall

• Defenition of the word pall

  • a sudden numbing dread
  • cause surfeit through excess, of something that was initially pleasing: "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
  • hanging cloth used as a blind
  • cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
  • lose sparkle or bouquet, as of wine or beer; "pall" is an obsolete word
  • lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
  • cause to become flat, of beer or wine
  • cover with a pall
  • become less interesting or attractive
  • something in which a corpse is wrapped
  • get tired of something or somebody
  • hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
  • burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
  • lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall"
  • cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
  • cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
  • lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
  • lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
  • lose sparkle or bouquet
  • cause to become flat
  • cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
  • cause to lose courage

Synonyms for the word pall

• • become dull
  • become flat
  • become tedious
  • blanket
  • cerement
  • chill
  • cloud
  • cloy
  • curtain
  • dark cloud
  • dark covering
  • dash
  • daunt
  • die
  • diminish
  • drape
  • drapery
  • dull
  • fade
  • fatigue
  • frighten away
  • frighten off
  • go sour
  • jade
  • lose its attraction
  • mantle
  • scare
  • scare away
  • scare off
  • shroud
  • tire
  • weary
  • winding-clothes
  • winding-sheet
  • wither

Similar words in the pall

• • pall
  • pall's
  • palladio
  • palladio's
  • palladium
  • palladium's
  • pallbearer
  • pallbearer's
  • pallbearers
  • palled
  • pallet
  • pallet's
  • pallets
  • palliate
  • palliated
  • palliates
  • palliating
  • palliation
  • palliation's
  • palliative
  • palliatives
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pallor
  • pallor's
  • palls

Hyponyms for the word pall

• • conk out
  • drop
  • drop cloth
  • drop curtain
  • festoon
  • frontal
  • peter out
  • poop out
  • portiere
  • retire
  • run down
  • run out
  • shower curtain
  • theater curtain
  • theatre curtain
  • withdraw

Hypernyms for the word pall

• • alter
  • apprehension
  • apprehensiveness
  • blind
  • burial garment
  • change
  • cover
  • degenerate
  • deteriorate
  • devolve
  • dread
  • drop
  • fill
  • furnishing
  • furnishings
  • intimidate
  • modify
  • replete
  • restrain
  • sate
  • satiate
  • screen
  • weaken

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