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"Pale" Definition

noun

A fence enclosing an area.
A region or district lying within an imposed boundary or constituting a separate jurisdiction.
A stake or pointed stick; a picket.
Heraldry A wide vertical band in the center of an escutcheon.
The area enclosed by a fence or boundary.

idiom

Beyond the pale Irrevocably unacceptable or unreasonable: behavior that was quite beyond the pale.

adjective

Feeble; weak: a pale rendition of the aria.
Having high lightness and low saturation.
Of a low intensity of color; light.
Of a low intensity of light; dim or faint: "a late afternoon sun coming through the el tracks and falling in pale oblongs on the cracked, empty sidewalks” ( Jimmy Breslin).
Whitish in complexion; pallid.

verb-intransitive

To become pale; blanch: paled with fright.
To decrease in relative importance.

verb-transitive

To cause to turn pale.
To enclose with pales; fence in.

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