1. Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
   "The ancient Egyptians used linen palls in their mummification process";
   - shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes
    
2. Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
   "A pall of smoke hung over the city";
   - curtain, drape, drapery, mantle
    
3. A sudden numbing dread
   "The news cast a pall over the celebration";
   - chill

1. Lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
   "the course palled on her"
    
2. Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
   "The endless meetings began to pall on everyone";
   - tire, weary, fatigue, jade
    
3. Become less interesting or attractive
   "The excitement of the new job quickly palled";
   - dull
    
4. Cover with a pall
   "The funeral home palled the casket with a black cloth"
    
5. Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
   "The rich desserts began to pall after the third course";
   - cloy
    
6. Cause to become flat
   "pall the beer"
    
7. Lose sparkle or bouquet
   "wine and beer can pall";
   - die, become flat

Sounds like: palates, pallets, palettes, pall, pall, paw

Derived forms: palled, palling, palls

Type of: alter, apprehension, apprehensiveness, blind, burial garment, change, cover, degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, dread, drop, fill, furnishing, misgiving, modify, replete, sate, satiate, screen, weaken

Encyclopedia: Pall, Martin