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Another word for pall

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Verb

  1. To satisfy to the full or to excess

      1. To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust.
      2. To overindulge.
      3. Overindulgence in food or drink.
      1. To satisfy (an appetite, for example) fully.
      2. To provide (someone) with more than enough; glut.
      3. Filled to satisfaction.
      1. To satisfy (an appetite) fully.
      2. To provide (someone) with more than enough; glut.
      1. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.
      2. A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.
      3. The throat; the gullet:
      1. To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate:
      2. To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.
      3. To eat or indulge in something excessively.
      1. To devour greedily.
      2. To gorge; glut.
      3. To fill to excess, as with blood or other fluid.
      1. To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit.
      2. To be too filling, rich, or sweet.
    See also:

    full

    excess

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for pall

Noun
      1. Something that covers, so as to protect or conceal.
      1. Fabric or material formed by weaving, knitting, pressing, or felting natural or synthetic fibers.
      2. A piece of fabric or material used for a specific purpose, as a tablecloth.
      3. Canvas.
      1. A loose outer garment, such as a cape.
      2. Something that covers or conceals:
      3. To cover or conceal with a cloak or something that acts like a cloak:
    See also:

    cover

Verb
      1. To make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill.
      2. To form (a tunnel, for example) by drilling, digging, or burrowing.
      3. To make a hole in or through something with or as if with a drill:
      1. To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate:
      2. To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.
      3. To eat or indulge in something excessively.
      1. To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust.
      2. To overindulge.
      3. Overindulgence in food or drink.
      1. To satisfy (an appetite, for example) fully.
      2. To provide (someone) with more than enough; glut.
      3. Filled to satisfaction.
    See also:

    weary

    disgust

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The silence hung like a pall over the room as Cynthia wiped down the already spotless counter.

  • When the troops finally returned, a pall of disappointment hung over them like a shroud.

  • Sarah managed to momentarily lift the silent pall suffusing the room.

  • The Pall Mall Magazine followed in 1893.

  • We tackle our work; professionally and without rancor to one another in spite of a pall of indecision that oft times seeps in like a chill from a leaky window frame.

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