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Noun pall has 3 senses
- chill, pall - a sudden numbing dread
--1 is a kind of apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread
- pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes - burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
--2 is a kind of burial garment
- curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall - hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
--3 is a kind of blind, screen; furnishings
--3 has particulars:
Verb pall has 8 senses
- pall, dull - become less interesting or attractive
--1 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
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- daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare - cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
--2 is one way to intimidate, restrain
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Something ----s somebody
- pall - cover with a pall
--3 is one way to cover
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- cloy, pall - cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
--4 is one way to satiate, sate, replete, fill
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Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- pall - cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
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- die, pall, become flat - lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall"
--6 is one way to change
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- pall - lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
--7 is one way to weaken
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- tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade - get tired of something or somebody
--8 is one way to devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
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