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