noun
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Paleness; pallor.
verb
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To turn pale; to lose colour.
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To become insignificant.
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To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
adjective
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Light in color.
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I have pale yellow wallpaper.
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(of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
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His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.
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Feeble, faint.
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He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
Examples of pale in a Sentence
His face looked pale and he rode with an alien stiffness.
Her face was pale and rigid.
He may turn pale when the trial comes.
Bianca gazed at him, pale and stricken.
A woman's pale blue flowered sweater was draped over the passenger seat.
She was pale but breathing steadily, her enigmatic eyes closed.
Her eyes were bloodshot but otherwise she looked pale lying on the sheets like a limp doll.
The woman was small and pale with eyes so dull, she seemed almost lifeless.
The freckles stood out on his pale face.
Another criminal, thin and pale, stood near.
He nodded, his pale eyes darkening enough to twinkle.
Toby was in Kris.s bed, the pale baby angel stripped down to his waist and unconscious.
She was pale beneath her warm color with dark circles beneath her eyes.
Dusty looked from Darian's hopeful face to Jonny's pale and sullen features.
The pale, dark-haired youth was drenched, but it was the wild look on his face that made her stop in the middle of the foyer and watch him pace with agitated energy.
His face was pale and drawn as he shoved the range back into place.
The fever had left him, and while he looked pale beneath his cocoa skin, he was alert and his speech coherent.
She was no more than a silhouette in the pale light.
Jared was pale and propped against a rock.
Every muscle of Telyanin's pale, terrified face began to quiver, his eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising to Rostov's face, and his sobs were audible.
Natasha, pale, with a fixed look, was sitting on the bench under the icons just where she had sat down on arriving and paid no attention to her father's words.
Pierre looked again at the companion's pale, delicate face with its black eyes and peculiar mouth, and something near to him, long forgotten and more than sweet, looked at him from those attentive eyes.
Lathum's pale blue gaze lifted from the tablet and searched Quint's.
Ah, here they are--the mixed metaphors mocking and strutting about before me, pointing to the bull in the china shop assailed by hailstones and the bugbears with pale looks, an unanalyzed species!
Sasha was lean and pale, his gaze turquoise.
Then she saw that the child's face was very pale and that he neither opened his eyes nor moved.
He was pale beneath the golden skin.
Better paint your house your own complexion; let it turn pale or blush for you.
Jule's shaking had stopped, and he looked pale rather than flushed from a fever.
His face was still pale.
The light green scrubs made his long features look sallow and the pale blue eyes that fixed on her seemed more tired than interested.
Its skin was porcelain pale, as if it never saw sunlight.
She wished she could share Katie's faith in her brother, but the only picture she could summons was a short, pale, overweight man with more brains for business than aptitude in mechanics.
They were all pale and exchanged looks in silence.
She looked down at her expanded figure and in the glass at her pale, sallow, emaciated face in which her eyes now looked larger than ever.
Countess Mary turned pale with fright and made signs to the boy.
His face was pale and his lips were tight.
His gaze drifted again to the woman whose pale features made him feel both proud and worried.
He hated how pale she looked, hated the scars on her body.
She was a vision, wearing a pale taupe nightgown with a lace bodice.
Used as an historical term, a pale is a district marked off from the surrounding country by a different system of government and law or by definite boundaries.
The best known of these districts was the "English Pale" in Ireland, dating from the reign of Henry II., although the word "pale" was not used in this connexion until the latter part of the 14th century.
The Pale varied considerably, according to the strength or weakness of the English authorities, and in the time of Henry VIII.
The Pale existed until the complete subjugation of Ireland under Elizabeth; the use of the word is frequent in Tudor times.
There was an "English Pale" or "Calais Pale" also in France until 1558, extending from Gravelines to Wissant, and for a short time under the Tudors an English Pale in Scotland.
In heraldry a "pale" is a band placed vertically in the centre of a shield, hence "in pale" or "to impale" is used of the marshalling of two coats side by side on a shield divided vertically.
A very weak current gives a pale and brittle deposit, but as the current-density is increased up to a certain point, the properties of the metal improve; beyond this point they deteriorate, the colour becoming darker and the deposit less coherent, until at last it is dark brown and spongy or pulverulent.
The breast is of a pale salmon or peach-blossom colour, each feather in front bearing a roundish dark spot, but these spots lessen in number and size lower down, and the warm tint passes into white on the belly.
Yet it is inconceivable that men and women should spend years, even whole lives, as catechumens within the pale of the church, and really remain ignorant all the time of the Trinitarian Epiclesis used in baptism, of the Creed, and above all of the Lord's Prayer.
Helen is about the same--pale and thin; but you mustn't think she is really ill.