Synonyms of palls

palls 1 of 2

noun

plural of pall

1

as in coffins

a boxlike container for holding a dead body

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• coffins
• caskets
• tombs
• boxes
• urns
• sarcophagi
• biers
• sarcophaguses
• sepulchers
• vaults
• sepulchres
• crypts
• charnel houses
• body bags
• charnels
• sepultures

2

as in clouds

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 & Similar Words

• clouds
• hazes
• shadows
• fogs
• veils
• shrouds
• umbras
• umbrae
• mists
• mantles
• murks
• penumbras
• nights
• penumbrae
• midnights

3

as in veils

something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• veils
• shrouds
• cloaks
• blankets
• robes
• curtains
• masks
• hoods
• mantles
• coverings
• copes
• wraps
• covers
• shields
• penumbrae
• screens
• covertures
• penumbras
• cover-ups
• blinds
• fig leaves
• faces
• façades
• Trojan horses
• disguises
• varnishes
• facades
• glosses
• fig leafs
• Potemkin villages
• camouflages
• concealers
• veneers

palls

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of pall

as in subsides

to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually

viewers' interest in the reality show eventually palled

Synonyms & Similar Words

• subsides
• decreases
• diminishes
• vanishes
• falls
• eases
• shrinks
• declines
• tapers
• ebbs
• recedes
• wanes
• dwindles
• tapers off
• dies (away or down or out)
• evaporates
• lessens
• drops (off)
• moderates
• abates
• drains (away)
• remits
• relents
• falls away
• lowers
• weakens
• phases down
• rachets (down)
• ratchets (down)
• lets up
• collapses
• de-escalates
• condenses
• compresses
• slackens
• tails (off)
• relaxes
• constricts
• contracts
• slows (down)
• fades (away)
• melts (away)
• alleviates
• peters (out)
• sinks
• flags
• gives out
• fritters (away)
• deflates
• caves (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rises
• grows
• increases
• builds
• mushrooms
• swells
• intensifies
• accumulates
• mounts
• enlarges
• expands
• soars
• escalates
• waxes
• appears
• emerges
• burgeons
• picks up
• snowballs
• balloons
• bourgeons
• shows up
• distends
• lengthens
• elongates
• blows up