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Meaning of 'pall' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pall [ a.]
- To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
2 . Pall [ n.]
- Same as Pawl.
- An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
- A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
- Same as Pallium.
- A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
- A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
- A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
- Nausea.
3 . Pall [ v. t.]
- To cloak.
- To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
- To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.

Meaning of 'pall' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pall [ v]
Meaning (1):
- cause to lose courage
Example in sentence:
  • dashed by the refusal
Meaning (2):
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
Example in sentence:
  • I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food
Meaning (3):
- cause to become flat
Example in sentence:
  • pall the beer
Meaning (4):
- lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
Example in sentence:
  • the course palled on her
Meaning (5):
- cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
Example in sentence:
  • Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite
Meaning (6):
- lose sparkle or bouquet
Example in sentence:
  • wine and beer can pall

Nearby Words:

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