Synonyms of the word

pall

• n. (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
• n. (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
• n. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the…
• n. (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
• n. (heraldry) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter…
• n. A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
• n. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
• n. (obsolete) nausea.
• n. A feeling of gloom.
• v. To cloak.
• v. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
• v. (intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

apprehensiveness

• n. the state of being apprehensive.

blind

• adj. (not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
• adj. (not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
• adj. (comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
• adj. (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
• adj. (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end.
• adj. (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.
• adj. smallest or slightest in phrases such as.
• adj. (not comparable) without any prior knowledge.
• adj. (not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating…
• adj. Unintelligible or illegible.
• adj. (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
• n. A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can…
• n. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name…
• n. Any device intended to conceal or hide.
• n. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
• n. (military) A blindage.
• n. A halting place.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
• n. (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
• n. (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
• n. (uncountable) Those who are blind, taken as a group.
• v. (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
• v. (slang, obsolete) To curse.
• v. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
• v. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the…
• adv. Without seeing; unseeingly.
• adv. (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.

cerement

• n. A burial shroud or garment.
• n. Cerecloth.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

chill

• n. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
• n. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through…
• n. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually…
• n. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten…
• n. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
• adj. Moderately cold or chilly.
• adj. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: chill out.
• adj. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
• adj. (slang) Okay, not a problem.
• v. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
• v. (intransitive) To become cold.
• v. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To relax, lie back.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
• v. (transitive) To discourage or depress.

cloy

• v. (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
• v. (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
• v. (transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

curtain

• n. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
• n. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
• n. (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified…
• n. (euphemistic, also "final curtain") Death.
• n. (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
• v. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
• v. (figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

dash

• n. (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal…
• n. (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
• n. A short run.
• n. A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
• n. Vigor.
• n. A dashboard.
• n. (Nigeria and Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
• n. (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.).
• v. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
• v. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
• v. (transitive) To throw violently.
• v. (transitive) To sprinkle; to splatter.
• v. (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
• v. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
• v. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
• v. To draw quickly; jot.
• v. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something…
• interj. (euphemistic) Damn!

daunt

• v. to discourage, intimidate.
• v. to overwhelm.

degenerate

• adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
• adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
• adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
• adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
• n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
• v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

deteriorate

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
• v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.

devolve

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
• v. (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially…
• v. (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.

die

• v. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
• v. (transitive) To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
• v. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
• v. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
• v. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
• v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
• v. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
• v. (transitive, video games) To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.
• v. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved…
• v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
• v. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
• n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
• n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
• n. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.).
• n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
• n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
• n. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
• n. Any small cubical or square body.
• n. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
• n. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
• n. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform…
• n. Obsolete spelling of dye.
• v. Obsolete spelling of dye.

drape

• n. (Britain) A curtain, a drapery.
• n. (textiles) The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
• n. (US) See drapes.
• n. (US) A youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore,…
• v. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
• v. To rail at; to banter.
• v. To make cloth.
• v. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
• v. To hang or rest limply.
• v. To spread over, cover.

drapery

• n. (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
• n. (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
• n. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
• n. Cloth, or woollen materials in general.

dread

• v. (transitive) To fear greatly.
• v. To anticipate with fear.
• v. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
• v. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
• n. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• n. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• n. Somebody or something dreaded.
• n. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
• n. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
• n. A Rastafarian.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock.
• adj. Terrible; greatly feared.
• adj. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

fatigue

• n. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
• n. (often in the plural) A menial task(s), especially in the military.
• n. (engineering) Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on the material.
• v. (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
• v. (transitive, cooking) to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
• v. (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
• v. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result…

fill

• v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
• v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
• v. To enter (something), making it full.
• v. (intransitive) To become full.
• v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
• v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
• v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
• n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
• n. An amount that fills a container.
• n. The filling of a container or area.
• n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
• n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
• n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
• n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
• n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

furnishing

• v. present participle of furnish.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.
• n. (of an animal, in the plural) A portion of longer hair within the coat of a dog, rabbit, etc.

intimidate

• v. (transitive) To make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, especially by threats…

jade

• n. (uncountable) A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often…
• n. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
• adj. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
• n. A horse too old to be put to work.
• n. (especially pejorative) A woman.
• v. To tire, weary or fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
• v. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

mantle

• n. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare…
• n. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
• n. (zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
• n. (zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
• n. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
• n. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns,…
• n. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
• n. A penstock for a water wheel.
• n. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
• n. (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
• n. A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel.
• n. (heraldry) A mantling.
• v. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
• v. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
• v. (of face, cheeks) To flush.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

replete

• adj. Abounding.
• adj. Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
• n. A honeypot ant.
• v. To restore something that has been depleted.

restrain

• v. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
• v. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

sate

• v. To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
• v. (dated) simple past tense of sit.
• n. satay.

satiate

• v. (transitive) To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.
• adj. Filled to satisfaction or to excess.

scare

• n. A minor fright.
• n. A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
• v. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

screen

• n. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
• n. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing…
• n. The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
• n. The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
• n. One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
• n. (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects.
• n. (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball…
• n. (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by…
• n. (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame…
• n. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's…
• n. (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection,…
• n. (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
• v. To filter by passing through a screen.
• v. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.
• v. (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
• v. To fit with a screen.
• v. To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility…
• v. To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds…

shroud

• n. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
• n. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
• n. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
• n. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
• n. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
• n. (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
• n. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets;…
• v. To cover with a shroud.
• v. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
• v. To take shelter or harbour.

tire

• v. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
• v. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
• v. (transitive) To bore.
• n. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
• n. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
• n. A covering for the head; a headdress.
• n. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
• n. (Canada, US) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
• n. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
• n. A tier, row, or rank.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

weary

• adj. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
• adj. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
• adj. Expressive of fatigue.
• adj. Causing weariness; tiresome.
• v. To make or to become weary.