| pall | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle |
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| (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
| (noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: chill |
| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary |
| (verb) lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to) | - |
| (verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: dull |
| (verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, die |
| (verb) cause to become flat | - |
| (verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: cloy |
| (verb) cover with a pall | - |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off |
| palladium | (noun) a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry | Synonyms: atomic number 46, Pd |
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| pallasite | (noun) a meteorite composed principally of olivine and metallic iron | - |
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| pallbearer | (noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: bearer |
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| pallet | (noun) a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed | - |
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| (noun) board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used | Synonyms: palette |
| (noun) a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay | - |
| (noun) a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it | - |
| (noun) the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art | Synonyms: palette |
| pallette | (noun) one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor | Synonyms: palette |
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| palliasse | (noun) mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust | Synonyms: paillasse |
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| palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, relieve |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, mitigate |
| palliation | (noun) easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause | - |
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| (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, mitigation |
| palliative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory |
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| (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
| pallid | (adjective) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress | Synonyms: pale, wan |
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| (adjective) lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness | Synonyms: pale |
| (adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, sick, wan |
| pallidity | (noun) being deficient in color | Synonyms: paleness |
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| pallidly | (adverb) in a manner lacking interest or vitality | Synonyms: dimly, palely |
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| pallidness | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallor, wanness |
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| pallidum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, paleostriatum |
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| pallium | (noun) cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back | - |
| (noun) (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | Synonyms: mantle |
| (noun) the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, cortex |
| pallone | (noun) an Italian game similar to tennis | - |
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| pallor | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness |
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| pally | (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: chummy, matey, palsy-walsy |
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