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pallnoun a boxlike container for holding a dead bodybearing her husband's pall were her four brothers and two nephews an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of glooma persistent pall of distrust has overtaken this administration and will remain until the president resigns cloud, darkness, shadow fog, haze, mist, murk, penumbra, umbramidnight, nightmantle, shroud, veil something that covers or conceals like a piece of clotha pall of gloom overshadowed the failing theater's last production blanket, cloak, cope, cover, cover-up, covering, coverture, curtain, hood, mantle, mask, penumbra, robe, shroud, veil, wraps blind, concealer, screen, shieldfig leaf, Potemkin village, Trojan horsecamouflage, disguise, facade(also façade), face, veneergloss, varnish to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallyviewers' interest in the reality show eventually palled 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 compress, condense, constrict, contractevaporate, fade (away), fritter (away), give out, melt (away), peter (out), tail (off), vanishslacken, slow (down)alleviate, relaxflag, sink, weakencave (in), collapse, deflate accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon(also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax appear, emerge, show upblow up, distend, elongate, lengthen v.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 in the 14th century |