pales in English

noun

1

a wooden stake or post used as an upright along with others to form a fence.

Get creative with a picket fence and have diagonal pales nailed to the horizontal boards.

synonyms: stake, post, pole, picket, upright

2

a broad vertical stripe down the middle of a shield.

A narrow pale is more likely if it is uncharged, that is, if it does not have other objects placed on it.

verb

1

become pale in one's face from shock or fear.

I paled at the thought of what she might say

synonyms: go/turn white, grow/turn pale, blanch, lose color

2

seem less impressive or important.

all else pales by comparison

synonyms: decrease in importance, lose significance, pale into insignificance, fade into the background

noun

stake, post, pole, picket, upright
boundary, confines, bounds, limits
picket

verb

go/turn white, decrease in importance, blanch
go/turn white, grow/turn pale, blanch, lose color
decrease in importance, lose significance, pale into insignificance, fade into the background
blanch, blench

Use "pales" in a sentence

1. The moon pales the stars with her brilliance.

2. ♪ it pales in the glow ♪

3. Everything else that happened in my life pales into insignificance beside that one event.

4. The cost pales into insignificance when compared with the damage done to his reputation.

5. In classical Greek, it meant “to fence with pales, to form a stockade, or palisade.”

6. Yet, the foregoing pales into insignificance when compared with the injustices wrought upon Christ Jesus.

7. The Sussex controversy pales in comparison to the trouble stirred up over Odyssey's Black Swan Project.

8. The Belgian brewing scene is littered with Belgian Pales, which were initially brewed to compete with Pilseners during the WWII era

9. The scraggly relative making its home in my father's backyard pales in comparison, but its symbolic value is far greater.

10. The illegitimacy rate of the United States of 7.1 for every 1,000 single women in 1940 pales alongside the 27.8 figure in 1979.

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