palling

Verb (1)

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.
   • Come, thick Night, / And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, / That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, / Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, / To cry, hold, hold.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Verb (2)

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
   • […] Reaſon and Reflection, which by repreſenting perpetually to the mind of Man the meanneſs of all ſenſual Gratifications, do, in great meaſure, blunt the edge of his keeneſt Deſires, and pall all his Enjoyments.1706 August 30, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preach’d in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; at the Funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet, August 30. 1706, London: Printed and sold by H. Hills, […], published...
2. (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
   • The liquor palls.

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Verb

pal (third-person singular simple present pals, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. Synonym of pal around.
   • As an adult, she moved to New York and palled with trip-hop artist Tricky, who signed her to his own label.2012 November 26, Evan Schlansky, “Song Premiere: Ife Sanchez Mora, Hopeful Heart”, in American Songwriter

   Synonyms:

   pal around

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