Pall

Quick meaning: Pall is a noun meaning Senses relating to cloth.

Meaning

Senses relating to cloth.

More Meanings

1. Senses relating to clothing.
2. (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
3. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
4. (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
5. Alternative form of pawl.
6. (obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.

Example Sentences

The liquor palls.

Beauty ſoon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the ſenſe.

[T]he ale and byere haue palled, and were nought, by cause such ale and biere hathe taken wynde in spurgyng.

We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for pall

Depending on context, synonyms include dull, shroud, weary, dash, die, jade.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mantle, drape, drapery, shroud, curtain, cerement.

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