paled
past simple and past participle ofpale
pale
verb[I]
uk/peɪl/us/peɪl/If a person'sfacepales, itlosesitsusualcolour:
Hisfacepaled and helookedas if he mightfaint.
The skin, & skin colour
- anti-wrinkle
- ashy
- beauty spot
- bloodless
- blush
- colouring
- crevice
- crimson
- cutaneous
- cutis
- florid
- flush
- freckle
- mole
- sunbath
- sunbathing
- sunburned
- suntan
- suntanned
- tanned
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Expressing and showing feelings
Idioms
pale in comparison
pale into insignificance
Examplesofpaled
paled
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
But the scale herepaledin comparison to the expenses associated with aeronautics.
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His point was simply that these conflictspaledin the face of the greater dimension of unanimity that he wished to illuminate.
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Everythingpaled, however, before the faces of the performers in the 'masks of disgrace' or 'bridles for shrews'.
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Moreover, since their novelties quicklypaled, revivalists were condemned to a cycle of ever greater sensationalism to hold public attention.
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The desire to protect the $50 million invested in the islandpaledin comparison.
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Although there had been occasional and quite severe downturns in the decade after 1859, thesepaledin comparison to the sustained reduction in price levels after 1881.
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Moreover, although the older participants were faster than the younger ones even in the imagery condition, this advantagepaledwhen compared to the very large differences in the nonimagery condition.
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In the longer term, the so-called silver inflation also contributed to the changes in the overall price level, but its impactpaledin relation to that of debasements.
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The days of leisure motoring havepaledalmost into insignificance.
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But that changepaledinto insignificance compared with the next development.
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This is an age in which the missionary enthusiasm of the 19th century has nowpaledconsiderably.
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I am not suggesting that there were no losses, but their numberspaledinto insignifiance compared with the losses suffered as a result of poor husbandry, bad weather and overstocking.
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When the doubters heard this, they became nervously deferential,paled, clasped their hands together, and backed away from their mats.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is the darkest of all of the pigment restricting patterns, and pigment is onlypaledat the warmest point in the body, the abdomen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The dynamics of the state had changed: the ancient states' populationpaledin comparison to that of the modern countries.
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- cranial
- cranial capacity
- cranial cavity
- craning
- craniofacial implant
- craniofacial-implant
- craniopharyngioma
- craniosacral
- craniosynostosis
- cranium
- crank
- crank caller
- crank-caller
- crank-out
- crude indicator
- crude instrument
- crude language
- crudely
- crude measure
- crude mortality
- crudeness
- crude oil
- crude-oil
- crude petroleum
- crude protein