pall

pall is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Same as Pawl. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Same as Pawl.
2. noun. An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
3. noun. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
4. noun. Same as Pallium.
5. noun. A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
6. noun. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
7. noun. A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
8. transitive verb. To cloak.
9. adjective. To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
10. transitive verb. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
11. transitive verb. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
12. noun. Nausea.
13. noun. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

    Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle

14. noun. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

    Synonyms: cerement, shroud

15. noun. a sudden numbing dread

    Synonyms: chill

16. verb. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

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

    Synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary

17. verb. lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)

    "the course palled on her"

18. verb. become less interesting or attractive

    Synonyms: dull

19. verb. lose sparkle or bouquet

    "wine and beer can pall"

    Synonyms: die

20. verb. cause to become flat

    "pall the beer"

21. verb. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

    "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

    Synonyms: cloy

22. verb. cover with a pall
23. verb. cause to lose courage

    "dashed by the refusal"

    Synonyms: dash, daunt, scare

Synonyms

curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, cerement, shroud, chill, fatigue, jade, tire, weary, dull, die, cloy, dash, daunt, scare

Common word forms

palls, palled, palling

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