pall :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (9)

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n. a sudden numbing dread

n. a sudden numbing dread

pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes

n. burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

Verbs (18)

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pall

v. cover with a pall

pall

v. cause to become flat; "pall the beer"

pall

v. lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"

v. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

v. become less interesting or attractive

die, pall, become flat

v. lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall"

daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare

v. cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"

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Fuzzynyms (85)

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gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness

n. a feeling of melancholy apprehension

n. a feeling of thoughtful sadness

oppression, oppressiveness

n. a feeling of being oppressed

n. a loose outer garment

n. bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep"

n. cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds

v. become less interesting or attractive

v. supply or feed to surfeit

gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out

v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"

satiate, sate, replete, fill

v. fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"

gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out

v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"

v. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

v. supply or feed to surfeit

die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

v. deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged

dishearten, put off

v. take away the enthusiasm of

v. confuse or put into disorder; "the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office"

faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle

v. disturb the composure of

v. cause to be nervous or upset

deter, discourage

v. try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"

v. to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police"

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