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pall

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of pall

1 a boxlike container for holding a dead body

  • bearing her husband's pall were her four brothers and two nephews
Synonyms of pall

bier, box, casket, coffin, sarcophagus
Words Related to pall

charnel (also charnel house), crypt, sepulchre (or sepulcher), sepulture, tomb, vault

urn

body bag

2 an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom

  • a persistent pall of distrust has overtaken this administration and will remain until the president resigns
Synonyms of pall

cloud, darkness, shadow
Words Related to pall

fog, haze, mist, murk, penumbra, umbra

midnight, night

mantle, shroud, veil

3 something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth

  • a pall of gloom overshadowed the failing theater's last production
Synonyms of pall

blanket, cloak, cope, cover, cover-up, covering, coverture, curtain, hood, mantle, mask, penumbra, robe, shroud, veil, wraps
Words Related to pall

blind, concealer, screen, shield

fig leaf, Potemkin village, Trojan horse

camouflage, disguise, facade (also façade), face, mask, veneer

gloss, varnish

pall

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of pall

to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually

  • viewers' interest in the reality show eventually palled
Synonyms of pall

abate, de-escalate, decline, decrease, die (away or down or out), diminish, drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, phase down, ratchet (down) also rachet (down) , recede, relent, remit, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane
Words Related to pall

compress, condense, constrict, contract

evaporate, fade (away), fritter (away), give out, melt (away), peter (out), tail (off), vanish

slacken, slow (down)

alleviate, relax

flag, sink, weaken

cave (in), collapse, deflate
Near Antonyms of pall

appear, emerge, show up

blow up, distend, elongate, lengthen
Antonyms of pall

accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon (also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax

Synonym Discussion of pall

satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, pall, glut, gorge mean to fill to repletion. satiate and sate may sometimes imply only complete satisfaction but more often suggest repletion that has destroyed interest or desire.
    • years of globe-trotting had satiated their interest in travel
    • readers were sated with sensationalistic stories
surfeit implies a nauseating repletion.
    • surfeited themselves with junk food
cloy stresses the disgust or boredom resulting from such surfeiting.
    • sentimental pictures that cloy after a while
pall emphasizes the loss of ability to stimulate interest or appetite.
    • a life of leisure eventually begins to pall
glut implies excess in feeding or supplying.
    • a market glutted with diet books
gorge suggests glutting to the point of bursting or choking.
    • gorged themselves with chocolate

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