pall
/pɔl/ verb C2- To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
- To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. · The liquor palls.
He/she/it palls · Past palled · Past participle palled · -ing form palling
Verb forms
- Base form
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- He/she/it
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- Past
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- Past participle
- palled
- -ing form
- palling
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In a very few moments it was necessary for Elaine to scramble to her feet, pick up her cloth of gold coverlet and pall of blackest samite and gaze blankly at a big crack in the bottom of her barge through which the water was literally pouring.
His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle.
We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite.
I took a cab after that and reached my brother’s rooms in Pall Mall, where I spent the day.
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