pall

Noun

• hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

• burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

• a sudden numbing dread

Verb

• lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
  • I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food
    

• lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to)
  • the course palled on her
    

• lose sparkle or bouquet
  • wine and beer can pall
    

• cause to become flat
  • pall the beer
    

• cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
  • Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite
    

• cover with a pall

• cause to lose courage
  • dashed by the refusal
    

• become less interesting or attractive

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  curtain , drape , drapery , mantle , shroud , cerement , winding-sheet , winding-clothes , chill , tire , weary , fatigue , jade , die , become flat , cloy , daunt , dash , scare off , frighten off , scare away , frighten away , scare , dull