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pall covered the coffin. 2 gloomy or melancholy or sombre or
grave or depressing air or mood or atmosphere; damper, cold
water, Colloq wet blanket: The recently uncovered scandals have
cast a pall over his successes in office.
pallý v. 1 Often, pall on or upon. bore, tire, weary, jade, irk,
irritate, sicken: His position lost all its charm when the work
began to pall on him. 2 sate, satiate, cloy, glut, surfeit,
gorge: I had reached the point where even the finest foods
began to pall me.
paltry adj. trifling, trivial, petty, small, insignificant, worthless,
pitiful, pathetic, pitiable, puny, sorry, wretched, miserable,
inconsequential, inconsiderable, unimportant, meagre, mean,
beggarly, base, low, contemptible, Colloq piddling, Brit
twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, mingy, US penny-ante, Slang Mickey
Mouse: Despite his wealth, his charitable contributions are
paltry. We all recognize Denison for the paltry pedant he is.
pamper v. baby, coddle, cosset, (over)indulge, spoil, mollycoddle,
cater to, pet, Rare cocker, Irish cosher: The Simpsons pamper
their children far too much.
pamphlet n. booklet, brochure, tract, essay, folder, leaflet, circular;
handbill, bill, notice, bulletin, advertisement, hand-out, ad,
Brit advert, US flyer, throw-away: He was arrested for printing
a pamphlet that denounced the government's repression of free
speech. Yesterday we received our sixteenth pamphlet promoting
replacement windows.
pan n. 1 saucepan, frying-pan, skillet, pot, casserole, US spider:
Melt a teaspoonful of butter in the pan, add the mixture, and
stir briskly over a medium heat. 2 face, visage, mien, fa‡ade,
Slang kisser, mug, puss: The worst part of Alf's not working is
that I have to look at his ugly pan all day. 3 depression,
indentation, concavity, cavity, hollow, pit, hole, crater: In a
rain-shower, the pans fill with water and the desert blooms.
--v. 4 wash, separate, sift: For years prospectors have panned
for gold in these hills. 5 criticize, censure, find fault, put
down, reject, flay, excoriate, Brit hammer, Colloq knock, roast,
slate, Slang Brit rubbish, US trash: The critics panned the
play and it closed after a week. 6 pan out. succeed, thrive,