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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pall1 /pɔl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- something that covers over, esp. with darkness:[usually singular]A pall of smoke hung over the site of the explosion.
- a feeling of gloom, sadness, mystery, etc., that seems to spread over a group of people:[usually singular]A deep pall of gloom hung over the room when we heard the news of the election.
- a cloth for spreading over a coffin or tomb.
- a coffin.
pall2 /pɔl/USA pronunciation v. [no object]- to cause tiredness or weariness;
to become dull or uninteresting:The pleasures of that nightclub began to pall after a few months.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pall1 (pôl),USA pronunciation n. - a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
- a coffin.
- anything that covers, shrouds, or overspreads, esp. with darkness or gloom.
- Religion[Eccles.]
- pallium (def. 2b).
- a linen cloth or a square cloth-covered piece of cardboard used to cover a chalice.
- Heraldrypairle.
- [Archaic.]a cloth spread upon an altar;
corporal. - [Archaic.]a garment, esp. a robe, cloak, or the like.
v.t. - to cover with or as with a pall.
- Latin pallium cloak
- bef. 900; Middle English; Old English pæll pope's pallium
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged shadow, melancholy, oppression.
pall2 (pôl),USA pronunciation v.i. - to have a wearying or tiresome effect (usually fol. by on or upon).
- to become distasteful or unpleasant.
- to become satiated or cloyed with something.
v.t. - to satiate or cloy.
- to make dull, distasteful, or unpleasant.
- 1350–1400; Middle English pallen; aphetic variant of appall
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged glut, sate, surfeit.
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