1 [usuallysing.] ~ 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 [V] (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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