palls
Loses its luster
Palls is the third-person singular of pall, meaning to become dull or lose interest: The novelty palls after a few weeks.
Something that once excited now bores.
As a plural noun, palls are cloth coverings draped over coffins, or figuratively, dark coverings that hang over something: Palls of smoke hung over the city.
Drills or tires
- tiresRubber wheel coverings
- weariesCauses exhaustion
- dullsReduces sharpness or intensity
- cloysDisgusts through excess
satiates · exhausts · fatigues · jades · stales · wears thin · numbs · deadens
Woven or knit material
canopy · curtain · cloak · velvet · altar cloth · hearse · casket · darkness
Light blocked by object
- darknessTotal absence of light
- cloudAtmospheric water vapor mass
- shroudBurial cloth or covering
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
dreariness · somber · oppressive · heavy · dismal · bleakness · foreboding · overcast
Those who accompany
- buddiesInformal term for friends
- chumsClose companions
- matesFriends or breeding partners
- comradesClose allies in cause
cronies · confidants · associates · cohorts · allies · partners · sidekicks · acquaintances
bores
Drills or tires
cloys · satiates · exhausts · fatigues · jades · stales · wears thin · numbs · deadens · blunts
cloth
Woven or knit material
veil · canopy · curtain · cloak · velvet · altar cloth · hearse · casket · darkness · shadow
shadow
Light blocked by object
melancholy · dreariness · somber · oppressive · heavy · dismal · bleakness · foreboding · overcast · dreary
companions
Those who accompany
comrades · cronies · confidants · associates · cohorts · allies · partners · sidekicks · acquaintances · peers
pallscaptivates
Holds rapt attention
enthralls · fascinates · engrosses · grips · enchants
pallsrays of light
Linear light emissions
sunbeams · illuminations · clearings · unveilings · revelations
- cast a pallSpread gloom or dread
- palling aroundSocializing informally with companions
- Pall MallLondon street of clubs
- funeral pallBurial casket covering
- palled aroundSocialized as friends
pallid, pall, pallor, palling, palled, pallbearer, pallbearers