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PALL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Synonyms:

curtain; drape; drapery; mantle; pall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pall" is a kind of...):

blind; screen (a protective covering 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 curves)

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)

Derivation:

pall (cover with a pall)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

Synonyms:

cerement; pall; shroud; winding-clothes; winding-sheet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pall" is a kind of...):

burial garment (cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial)

Derivation:

pall (cover with a pall)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sudden numbing dread

Synonyms:

chill; pall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("pall" is a kind of...):

apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread (fearful expectation or anticipation)

Derivation:

pall (cause to lose courage)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

Example:

I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

Synonyms:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)

Example:

the course palled on her

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

weaken (become weaker)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become less interesting or attractive

Synonyms:

dull; pall

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

Lose sparkle or bouquet

Example:

wine and beer can pall

Synonyms:

become flat; die; pall

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cause to become flat

Example:

pall the beer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

Sense 6

Meaning:

Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

Example:

Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite

Synonyms:

cloy; pall

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

fill; replete; sate; satiate (fill to satisfaction)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 7

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

Derivation:

pall (hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window))

pall (burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Cause to lose courage

Example:

dashed by the refusal

Synonyms:

dash; daunt; frighten away; frighten off; pall; scare; scare away; scare off

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "pall" is one way to...):

intimidate (to compel or deter by or as if by threats)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

pall (a sudden numbing dread)

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