pall

Plural: palls

Noun

• a sudden numbing dread
• burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
• hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
• Senses relating to cloth.
• Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
• Senses relating to cloth.
• A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
• Senses relating to cloth.
• A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
• Senses relating to cloth.
• A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
• Senses relating to clothing.
• An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
• Senses relating to clothing.
• Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
• Senses relating to clothing.
• Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
• Senses relating to clothing.
• A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
• A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
• Alternative form of pawl.

Verb

Verb Forms: palled, palling, palls

• To become dull, insipid, or lose effectiveness.
• become less interesting or attractive
• cause to lose courage
• cover with a pall
• cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
• cause to become flat
  • "pall the beer"
• lose sparkle or bouquet
  • "wine and beer can pall"
• lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
  • "the course palled on her"
• lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
• To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
• To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
• To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
• Alternative form of pawl.

Examples

• A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
• The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
• The flag of South Africa has a green pall
• The game began to PALL after too many uninspired word plays.
• The liquor palls.

Synonyms

become flat, cerement, chill, cloy, curtain, dash, daunt, die, drape, drapery, dull, fatigue, frighten away, frighten off, jade, mantle, scare, scare away, scare off, shroud, tire, weary, winding-clothes, winding-sheet, cross-pall, pairle

Related Words

pall mall, palliate

Anagrams of pall