VERBS
appear, be, look, seem
become, go, grow, turn
Her face turned pale when she saw the exam results on the screen.
remain
ADV
deathly, extremely, sickly, terribly, very
She looked extremely pale after hearing the bad news about her friend.
a bit, a little, quite, rather, slightly | strangely, unnaturally
PHRASES
pale and drawn
After the long illness, she appeared pale and drawn when she finally returned to work.
adj
Light in color.
I have pale yellow wallpaper.
She had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.
Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.
Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
Feeble, faint.
He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.
verb
To turn pale; to lose colour.
But a man— / Note men !—they are but women after all, / As women are but Auroras !—there are men / Born tender, apt to pale at a trodden worm, / Who paint for pastime, in their favourite dream, / Spruce auto-vestments flowered with crocus-flames / There are, too, who believe in hell and lie : […]
To become insignificant.
(Although the conditions are rather different, the generosity of the offer certainly pales by comparison with the "Eurailpass" now available to tourists from North and South America at $125 (£44 13s.), which allows two months' unlimited first class travel throughout the railway systems of thirteen countries—[...].)
Its financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, especially with the coming infusion of some $3 billion a year from Warren E. Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway.
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
The Glow-worme ſhowes the Matine to be neere, / And gins to pale his vneffectuall Fire : / Adue, adue, Hamlet : remember me.
noun
Paleness; pallor.
The boare (quoth ſhe) whereat a ſuddain pale, / Like lawne being ſpred vpon the bluſhing roſe, / Vſurpes her cheeke, ſhe trembles at his tale, / And on his neck her yoaking armes ſhe throwes.
noun — a wooden strip forming part of a fence
adjective — abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emot
adjective — lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
Of a person or their behaviour: outside the bounds of what is acceptable, or regarded as good judgment, morality, ethics, etc.
The very date which put them beyond the pale as belligerents was that which they seem to have chosen in order to prove what active and valiant soldiers they still remained.
To appear small or unimportant in relation to something else.
Before Minecraft released The Nether Update in 2020, diamonds were the strongest material in the game. Leather, iron, and gold paled in comparison to the strength, durability, and
Death, the Grim Reaper or angel of death; and one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
I have pale yellow wallpaper.
WiktionaryShe had pale skin because she didn't get much sunlight.
WiktionaryShe turned pale and screamed on seeing the spider in the toilet.
WiktionaryBut a man— / Note men !—they are but women after all, / As women are but Auroras !—there are men / Born tender, apt to pale at a trodden worm, / Who paint for pastime, in their favourite dream, / Spru
Wiktionary(Although the conditions are rather different, the generosity of the offer certainly pales by comparison with the "Eurailpass" now available to tourists from North and South America at $125 (£44 13s.)
WiktionaryIts financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, especially with the coming infusion of some $3 billion a year from Warren E. Buff
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In some senses, pale is marked as obsolete, archaic, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.