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palest

verb

Meaning

  1. To turn pale; to lose colour.
  2. To become insignificant.
  3. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
  4. Light in color.
  5. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
  6. Feeble, faint.
  7. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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