| Front | pall |
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| Back | pall noun, verb BrE /pɔːl/ NAmE /pɔːl/ noun word origin 1 [usually singular] ~ of sth a thick dark cloud of sth a pall of smoke/dust (figurative) News of her death cast a pall over the event. 2 a cloth spread over a coffin (= a box used for burying a dead person in) verb verb forms word origin [intransitive] (not used in the progressive tenses) ~ (on sb) to become less interesting to sb over a period of time because they have done or seen it too much Even the impressive scenery began to pall on me after a few hundred miles. |
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