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  • 1insipid — adjective Etymology: French & Late Latin; French insipide, from Late Latin insipidus, from Latin in + sapidus savory, from sapere to taste more at sage Date: 1609 1. lacking taste or savor ; tasteless < insipid food > 2. lacking in qualities that …

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  • 2pall — I. n. 1. Cloak, mantle, outer garment. 2. Pallium, archbishop s scarf. 3. [Written also Pawl and Paul.] Detent, click. II. v. a. 1. Make vapid or insipid. 2. Satiate, cloy, surfeit, sate, glut, gorge, fi …

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  • 3Flatten — Flat ten (fl[a^]t t n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flattened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattening}.] [From {Flat}, a.] 1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane. [1913 Webster] 2. To throw down; to&#8230; …

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  • 4Flattened — Flatten Flat ten (fl[a^]t t n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flattened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattening}.] [From {Flat}, a.] 1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane. [1913 Webster] 2. To throw down; …

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  • 5Flattening — Flatten Flat ten (fl[a^]t t n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flattened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattening}.] [From {Flat}, a.] 1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane. [1913 Webster] 2. To throw down; …

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  • 6Flattening oven — Flatten Flat ten (fl[a^]t t n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flattened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattening}.] [From {Flat}, a.] 1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane. [1913 Webster] 2. To throw down; …

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  • 7To flatten a sail — Flatten Flat ten (fl[a^]t t n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flattened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flattening}.] [From {Flat}, a.] 1. To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane. [1913 Webster] 2. To throw down; …

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  • 8Pall — Pall, v. t. 1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. Atterbury. [1913 Webster] 2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.&#8230; …

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  • 9pall — 1. noun /pɔːl,pɔl,pɑl/ a) fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, b) a cloth used for various purposes on the …

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  • 10dull — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unsharp, blunt; deadened, numb; stupid; tedious, uninteresting, boring; spiritless, vapid, vacuous; dead, lifeless; sluggish, listless, lethargic; lackluster, dim, cloudy, obscure, stale, jaded. v.&#8230; …

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