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paled

USPAYLD/peɪld/

3 meanings of paled

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  1. 1
    verb
    Past tense and past participle of pale. Use it for the past, or after has, have or had.

    Her face paled when she saw the crashed car.

    The bright curtains had paled after years in the sun.

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  2. 2
    adjectiveobsolete
    Closed in by a fence made of pointed wooden stakes.

    The paled orchard kept wandering livestock away from the young apple trees.

    Within the paled close, the monks tended their rows of herbs.

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  3. 3
    adjectiveobsolete
    Covered with a pattern of stripes.
    Buskins he wore of costliest cordwayne, / Pinckt vpon gold, and paled part per part,
    1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie QueeneHere, paled means decorated with stripes.
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paled is a form of pale

pale, verb: To seem small or much less important next to something else. Full entry

Forms
palepales he/she/itpaling -ing formpaled past tense, past participle
Spelling
pale → paled: add -d
Sound
The ending sounds like /d/.

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