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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chill |
| Type of | apprehensiveness, apprehension, dread |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off |
| Type of | intimidate |
pall::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | curtain, drape, drapery, mantle |
| Type of | blind, furnishing, screen |
| Has types | festoon, drop, drop cloth, drop curtain, frontal, portiere, shower curtain, theater curtain, theatre curtain |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cerement, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
| Type of | burial garment |
Examples of pall
pall
Not that the pall of corruption is necessarily to blame for the lack of numbers.
From the telegraph.co.uk
A gloomy pall caps the valley as the lift rattles at the bottom of the mountain.
From the kansas.com
The death of defensive coordinator Jim Johnson cast a pall over the proceedings.
From the sacbee.com
For his fellow artists, though, Jones'death cast a pall over the zany festival.
From the chron.com
The rave was a tough milestone for an arena that already had a pall cast over it.
From the bostonherald.com
One reason for the pall over Wall Street is continuing mixed corporate signals.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Officers'wives, investigating explosion and seeing smoke pall in distance on Dec.
From the kansas.com
The pall around Chicago many have cast over this Bulls season makes little sense.
From the sacbee.com
A great pall of smoke hung over the city and there was a stench of burning timber.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- Become less interesting or attractive
- Chill: a sudden numbing dread
- Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- Daunt: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
- Cover with a pall
- Curtain: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- Cloy: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
- Cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
- Peter Simon Pallas (22 September 1741 - 8 September 1811) was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.
