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Rarepales
The correct spelling is pales.
How to pronounce pales
verb
IPA: /peɪlz/
Say it like: Pal-es
The correct spelling is pales. To turn pale; to lose colour.
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Meanings
verb
- 1.To turn pale; to lose colour.
- 2.To become insignificant.
- 3.To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- 4.To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
noun
- 1.A wooden stake; a picket.
- 2.Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
- 3.(by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- 4.The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
- 5.A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
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