pallnoun
uk/pɔːl/us/pɑːl/pall noun (CLOUD)
[ C ] a thick, dark cloud of smoke:
Palls of smoke obscured our view.
[ S ] a negative feeling or mood:
The bad news cast a pall over the evening.
A pall of embarrassment descended on the room.
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Precipitation: clouds, dew, fog & steam
- altocumulus
- billow
- cloudy
- condensation
- cumulonimbus
- dewdrop
- fog
- fog up
- hazy
- miasma
- pea soup
- smog
- steam
- steamy
- storm cloud
- stratocumulus
- thundercloud
- vapour trail
- visibility
- whiteout
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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
pall noun (CLOTH)
[ C ] a cloth used to cover a coffin at a funeral
[ C ] US the coffin itself at a funeral
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Funerals
- closed-casket
- cortege
- funeral director
- funeral parlour
- funerary
- funereal
- green burial
- hearse
- lay
- morgue
- mortician
- mourner
- natural burial
- open-casket
- pay your respects idiom
- respect
- the last post
- undertaker
- wake
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pallverb [ I ]
uk/pɔːl/us/pɑːl/to become less interesting or enjoyable:
The pleasure of not having to work quickly palled.
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Bore and bored
- (stuck) in a rut idiom
- ass
- banal
- be (stuck) in a groove idiom
- be watching the clock idiom
- bore the ass off sb idiom
- bored
- bored stiff idiom
- brain-dead
- clock
- get itchy feet idiom
- languid
- listless
- outgrow
- restless
- tire
- uninspired
- uninterested
- weary
- you should get out more idiom
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