pall
1. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
• Syn:
shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes
• Derivationally related forms:
shroud (for: shroud)
• Hypernyms:
burial garment
2. a sudden numbing dread
• Syn:
chill
• Derivationally related forms:
chill (for: chill)
• Hypernyms:
apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread
3. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
• Syn:
curtain, drape, drapery, mantle
• Derivationally related forms:
curtain (for: curtain)
• Hypernyms:
blind, screen, furnishing
• Hyponyms:
drop curtain, drop cloth, drop, festoon, frontal,
portiere, shower curtain, theater curtain, theatre curtain
• Part Meronyms:
eyelet, eyehole
1. become less interesting or attractive (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
dull
• Derivationally related forms:
dullard (for: dull)
• Hypernyms:
change
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. cover with a pall
• Hypernyms:
cover
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. cause to become flat
- pall the beer
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Cause:
die, become flat
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
4. lose strength or effectiveness;
become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
- the course palled on her
• Hypernyms:
weaken
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
5. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
- I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food
• Syn:
tire, weary, fatigue, jade
• Derivationally related forms:
jade (for: jade), fatigue (for: fatigue)
• Hypernyms:
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
• Hyponyms:
poop out, peter out, run down, run out, conk out,
retire, withdraw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
6. cause to lose courage
- dashed by the refusal
• Syn:
daunt, dash, scare off, frighten off, scare away,
frighten away, scare
• Derivationally related forms:
scare (for: scare)
• Hypernyms:
intimidate, restrain
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
7. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
- Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite
• Syn:
cloy
• Hypernyms:
satiate, sate, replete, fill
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
8. lose sparkle or bouquet
- wine and beer can pall
• Syn:
die, become flat
• Hypernyms:
change
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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