Dictionary entry details
• PALL (noun)
Meaning:
A sudden numbing dread
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
pall; chill
Hypernyms ("pall" is a kind of...):
apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread (fearful expectation or anticipation)
Meaning:
Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
winding-sheet; winding-clothes; cerement; pall; shroud
Hypernyms ("pall" is a kind of...):
burial garment (cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial)
Meaning:
Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
curtain; drape; drapery; pall; mantle
Hypernyms ("pall" is a kind of...):
blind; screen (something that keeps things out or hinders sight)
furnishing ((usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable)
Meronyms (parts of "pall"):
eyehole; eyelet (a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pall"):
drop; drop cloth; drop curtain (a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery)
festoon (a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful loops)
frontal (a drapery that covers the front of an altar)
portiere (a heavy curtain hung across a doorway)
shower curtain (a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area)
theater curtain; theatre curtain (a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance)
• PALL (verb)
Meaning:
Become less interesting or attractive
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
pall; dull
Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Cause to lose courage
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
daunt; frighten away; frighten off; scare away; scare off; pall; scare; dash
Context example:
dashed by the refusal
Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):
intimidate; restrain (to compel or deter by or as if by threats)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Cover with a pall
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):
cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
cloy; pall
Context example:
Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite
Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):
fill; replete; sate; satiate (fill to satisfaction)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cause to become flat
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
pall the beer
Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Cause:
become flat; die; pall (lose sparkle or bouquet)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Lose sparkle or bouquet
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
become flat; pall; die
Context example:
wine and beer can pall
Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the course palled on her
Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):
weaken (become weaker)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Get tired of something or somebody
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
tire; jade; fatigue; weary; pall
Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):
degenerate; deteriorate; devolve; drop (grow worse)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pall"):
conk out; peter out; poop out; run down; run out (use up all one's strength and energy and stop working)
retire; withdraw (lose interest)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
