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[77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) **pall** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old use) A pall is a dark cloth or covering spread over something.[↗](../../pall/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A pall is a dark feeling of gloom or sadness that spreads over things.[↗](../../pall/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The robins had collected a pall of leaves.[↗](../../pall/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A pall of smoke hung over the town.[↗](../../pall/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A sad pall fell over the house.[↗](../../pall/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **palladium** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A thing that is believed to keep a city or people safe from harm.[↗](../../palladium/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The temple held the sacred Palladium of Troy.[↗](../../palladium/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · People believed the city was safe while the Palladium stood.[↗](../../palladium/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our old tree was a palladium for the village.[↗](../../palladium/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **pallbearer** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* One of the people who carry the coffin at a funeral.[↗](../../pallbearer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A person who walks beside the coffin at a funeral as an honour.[↗](../../pallbearer/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Six pallbearers carried the coffin into the church.[↗](../../pallbearer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad's grandsons were his pallbearers.[↗](../../pallbearer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Being a pallbearer is an honour.[↗](../../pallbearer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The pallbearers walked slowly and carefully.[↗](../../pallbearer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · At the soldier's funeral, the pallbearers wore uniforms.[↗](../../pallbearer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She asked her brothers to be pallbearers for their mum.[↗](../../pallbearer/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pallet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A flat wooden or plastic platform on which goods are stacked so that a forklift truck can lift and move them.[↗](../../pallet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A simple straw bed or thin mattress on the floor (old use, in stories).[↗](../../pallet/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A flat wooden tool used by potters (less common).[↗](../../pallet/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The forklift lifted a pallet of bricks.[↗](../../pallet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The lorry was full of pallets of tinned beans.[↗](../../pallet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We built a bug hotel from an old pallet.[↗](../../pallet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The prisoner slept on a pallet of straw.[↗](../../pallet/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Each pallet holds 40 boxes.[↗](../../pallet/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Mind your fingers near the wooden pallets.[↗](../../pallet/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **palliative** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (medicine) Palliative care is care that keeps a very ill person comfortable and free from pain when their illness cannot be cured.[↗](../../palliative/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) Palliative means making a problem feel less bad for now without fixing its cause.[↗](../../palliative/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (noun, formal) A palliative is something that eases pain or a problem for a while.[↗](../../palliative/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Grandad is now in palliative care at the hospice.[↗](../../palliative/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The palliative care nurses made sure Nan was not in pain.[↗](../../palliative/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Palliative care helps people stay comfortable and calm.[↗](../../palliative/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The family could visit every day during his palliative care.[↗](../../palliative/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · (formal) Painting over the crack was only a palliative measure.[↗](../../palliative/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (formal) Extra homework club is a palliative, not a cure, for the reading problem.[↗](../../palliative/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A palliative doctor talks gently with the patient and the family.[↗](../../palliative/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pallor** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Unhealthy paleness of the face or skin, from illness, fear, shock or tiredness.[↗](../../pallor/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* His pallor showed he had not slept.[↗](../../pallor/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The patient's pallor worried the doctor.[↗](../../pallor/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A deathly pallor spread across her face when she saw the ghost.[↗](../../pallor/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · After the long winter, his pallor was gone.[↗](../../pallor/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The vampire in the book had a strange pallor.[↗](../../pallor/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Her pallor faded as she drank some sweet tea.[↗](../../pallor/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **palm** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The palm is the inside of your hand, between your wrist and your fingers.[↗](../../palm/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A palm, or palm tree, is a tall tree with no branches and a bunch of big leaves at the top; it grows in warm places.[↗](../../palm/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To palm something is to hide it in your hand, as a magician does with a coin.[↗](../../palm/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To palm something off is to get rid of something unwanted by giving it to someone else.[↗](../../palm/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She held the baby bird in the palm of her hand.[↗](../../palm/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My palms get sweaty before a test.[↗](../../palm/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Coconuts grow on palm trees.[↗](../../palm/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We sat in the shade of a palm on the beach in Queensland.[↗](../../palm/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The magician palmed the coin and it seemed to vanish.[↗](../../palm/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He tried to palm off his old bike on his little brother.[↗](../../palm/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash the palms and the backs of your hands with soap.[↗](../../palm/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I know this park like the palm of my hand.[↗](../../palm/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · "I flew beneath green palm-trees, and amidst the blooming almond-trees," sang the canary.[↗](../../palm/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.[↗](../../palm/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.14.26, JPS 1917)[↗](../../palm/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · and the South, and the Plain, even the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, as far as Zoar.[↗](../../palm/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.34.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../palm/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.[↗](../../palm/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.14.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../palm/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.[↗](../../palm/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.92.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../palm/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.[↗](../../palm/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.7.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../palm/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · then was the palm of the hand sent from before Him, and this writing was inscribed.[↗](../../palm/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings DAN.5.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../palm/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **palpable** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Able to be touched or felt, and so easy to see or notice.[↗](../../palpable/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He endeavors to show how the ideal became, after numerous emanations, more condensed, palpable and concrete.[↗](../../palpable/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../palpable/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **palpitation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A feeling that your heart is beating very fast, very hard or unevenly.[↗](../../palpitation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal, joking) "Palpitations" can mean strong nervous excitement or shock.[↗](../../palpitation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "You nearly gave me palpitations!"[↗](../../palpitation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Too much coffee gave Mum palpitations.[↗](../../palpitation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She felt palpitations before going on stage.[↗](../../palpitation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The doctor checked his heart because of the palpitations.[↗](../../palpitation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · "Don't jump out at me\![↗](../../palpitation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") You'll give me palpitations!" said Gran.[↗](../../palpitation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Palpitations after running usually settle when you rest.[↗](../../palpitation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The scary film gave me palpitations.[↗](../../palpitation/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **paltry** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Paltry means very small, too little to be worth much: a paltry sum of money.[↗](../../paltry/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The king offered a paltry reward for the lost cow.[↗](../../paltry/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He gave her a paltry handful of coins.[↗](../../paltry/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · It was a paltry risk, not worth worrying about.[↗](../../paltry/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **pamper** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* To treat someone too kindly and give them too much comfort or care.[↗](../../pamper/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") **pan** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pan is a metal pot for cooking food, often with a long handle, like a frying pan or saucepan.[↗](../../pan/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A pan is also one of the two dishes of a balance scale.[↗](../../pan/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A baking pan or tin holds cakes in the oven.[↗](../../pan/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To pan for gold is to wash river sand in a pan to find gold.[↗](../../pan/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To pan a film is to say it is very bad.[↗](../../pan/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Each pan holds 12 cookies.[↗](../../pan/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She bakes 3 pans of muffins.[↗](../../pan/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Put 2 weights on the left pan.[↗](../../pan/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many pans are needed for 50 rolls?[↗](../../pan/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad fried the eggs in a pan.[↗](../../pan/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Careful, the pan is very hot\![↗](../../pan/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Miners panned for gold in the river.[↗](../../pan/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Grease the cake pan before you pour in the mix.[↗](../../pan/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Out of the frying-pan into the fire.[↗](../../pan/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; (Torah NUM.7.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pan/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And if thy offering be a meal-offering of the stewing-pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.[↗](../../pan/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.2.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pan/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, (Torah NUM.16.39, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pan/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · and the snuffers, and the basins, and the pans, and the fire-pans, of pure gold.[↗](../../pan/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.4.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pan/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And she took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat.[↗](../../pan/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.13.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pan/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith.[↗](../../pan/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.2.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pan/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **panama** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (a name) Panama is a country in Central America that joins North and South America; its capital is Panama City.[↗](../../panama/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (a name) The Panama Canal is a famous canal across Panama that lets ships sail between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans without going all the way around South America.[↗](../../panama/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A panama (or Panama hat) is a light summer hat woven from straw-like leaves; it is actually made in Ecuador.[↗](../../panama/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Panama joins North America to South America.[↗](../../panama/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ships use the Panama Canal to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific.[↗](../../panama/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Locks lift the ships up and down in the Panama Canal.[↗](../../panama/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The canal saves ships a very long trip around South America.[↗](../../panama/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad wore his panama hat at the cricket.[↗](../../panama/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Panama hats are really made in Ecuador.[↗](../../panama/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Panama City is the capital of Panama.[↗](../../panama/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Many workers died of malaria while building the Panama Canal.[↗](../../panama/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **panamanian** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Panamanian means coming from or belonging to Panama, a country in Central America that joins North and South America.[↗](../../panamanian/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A Panamanian is a person from Panama.[↗](../../panamanian/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Panamanian flag is red, white and blue with two stars.[↗](../../panamanian/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Many Panamanian people speak Spanish.[↗](../../panamanian/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A Panamanian boy joined our class this term.[↗](../../panamanian/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Panamanian workers run the locks on the canal.[↗](../../panamanian/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We tasted a Panamanian soup called sancocho.[↗](../../panamanian/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Panama City is the Panamanian capital.[↗](../../panamanian/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The ship sailed past the Panamanian coast.[↗](../../panamanian/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pancake** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pancake is a thin, flat, round cake made from a batter of flour, eggs and milk, cooked in a frying pan.[↗](../../pancake/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* "Flat as a pancake" means very flat.[↗](../../pancake/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We had pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast.[↗](../../pancake/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad flipped the pancake in the air.[↗](../../pancake/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · On Pancake Day we eat pancakes with lemon and sugar.[↗](../../pancake/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mix flour, eggs and milk to make pancake batter.[↗](../../pancake/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The land here is flat as a pancake.[↗](../../pancake/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I ran in a pancake race.[↗](../../pancake/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Then good food was set before them, milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts.[↗](../../pancake/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pancreas** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The pancreas is an organ in the belly, behind the stomach, that makes digestive juices and the hormone insulin, which controls the amount of sugar in the blood.[↗](../../pancreas/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The pancreas sits behind the stomach.[↗](../../pancreas/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The pancreas makes insulin to control blood sugar.[↗](../../pancreas/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My friend has type 1 diabetes because her pancreas doesn't make insulin.[↗](../../pancreas/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Juices from the pancreas help digest fat.[↗](../../pancreas/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The pancreas is about as long as a banana.[↗](../../pancreas/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In science we labelled the pancreas on a body diagram.[↗](../../pancreas/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **panda** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A panda (giant panda) is a large black-and-white bear from the mountain forests of China that eats almost only bamboo.[↗](../../panda/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A red panda is a smaller, reddish-brown, furry animal with a long ringed tail; it also eats bamboo but is not a close relative of the giant panda.[↗](../../panda/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (UK, old-fashioned) A «panda car» was a small police car.[↗](../../panda/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The panda munched bamboo for most of the day.[↗](../../panda/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Giant pandas live in the mountains of China.[↗](../../panda/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A baby panda is tiny and pink when it is born.[↗](../../panda/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The red panda curled its bushy tail around itself to keep warm.[↗](../../panda/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class adopted a panda through a wildlife charity.[↗](../../panda/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Pandas have a special wrist bone that helps them hold bamboo.[↗](../../panda/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · There were huge crowds at the zoo to see the new panda cub.[↗](../../panda/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The panda is the symbol of a famous nature charity.[↗](../../panda/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **pandemic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pandemic is an outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads across many countries or the whole world and makes very many people ill.[↗](../../pandemic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* As an adjective, pandemic means spreading everywhere.[↗](../../pandemic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The COVID-19 pandemic closed schools around the world.[↗](../../pandemic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · During the pandemic we learnt at home.[↗](../../pandemic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Black Death was a terrible pandemic.[↗](../../pandemic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Washing hands helps slow down a pandemic.[↗](../../pandemic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists made vaccines during the pandemic.[↗](../../pandemic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A pandemic spreads to many countries.[↗](../../pandemic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma remembers the pandemic lockdowns.[↗](../../pandemic/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pandemonium** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Pandemonium is a wild noise and confusion, when everyone shouts and runs about.[↗](../../pandemonium/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* When the bell rang, pandemonium broke out in the playground.[↗](../../pandemonium/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The goblins made such pandemonium that the baker hid under the table.[↗](../../pandemonium/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The news caused pandemonium in the town.[↗](../../pandemonium/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **pane** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* One sheet of glass in a window or door.[↗](../../pane/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (computers) A separate part of a window on a screen.[↗](../../pane/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The ball smashed a pane in the greenhouse.[↗](../../pane/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Rain ran down the window pane.[↗](../../pane/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our window has 6 panes in 2 rows of 3.[↗](../../pane/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad replaced the broken pane of glass.[↗](../../pane/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Frost made patterns on the pane.[↗](../../pane/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Click the left pane to see your files.[↗](../../pane/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The mountain-dweller saw them through the panes of his little window.[↗](../../pane/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **panel** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A flat piece of wood, glass, metal or other material that is part of a door, wall or other surface.[↗](../../panel/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A board with switches, buttons or controls on it.[↗](../../panel/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A small group of people chosen to give their opinion, answer questions or judge something.[↗](../../panel/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* One picture box in a comic strip.[↗](../../panel/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Solar panels on the roof make electricity from sunlight.[↗](../../panel/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The door has four wooden panels.[↗](../../panel/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The pilot checked the control panel.[↗](../../panel/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A panel of judges chose the best poem.[↗](../../panel/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The wind blew down a fence panel.[↗](../../panel/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Draw your comic in six panels.[↗](../../panel/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The car had a dent in its side panel.[↗](../../panel/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A panel of experts answered our questions about space.[↗](../../panel/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · She got up after midnight, passed through the panel, and found a Beautiful brown bear’s hide hanging in the corner.[↗](../../panel/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.[↗](../../panel/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.1.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../panel/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **panelling** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Panelling is wood or other material fixed in flat boards to cover the walls of a room.[↗](../../panelling/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The hall had walls of dark oak panelling.[↗](../../panelling/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She ran her hand over the gold panelling.[↗](../../panelling/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The painting hung against the panelling in the gallery.[↗](../../panelling/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **pang** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sudden sharp pain or feeling.[↗](../../pang/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A sudden strong feeling, like a pang of guilt or a pang of hunger.[↗](../../pang/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She felt a pang of guilt.[↗](../../pang/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Hunger pangs woke him up.[↗](../../pang/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mole felt a pang when he smelled his old home.[↗](../../pang/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A pang of envy hit her when she saw the bike.[↗](../../pang/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He felt a pang of sadness at leaving.[↗](../../pang/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The pangs of hunger made him grumpy.[↗](../../pang/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · And at this thought the pangs of hunger made him feel quite sick with fear.[↗](../../pang/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.[↗](../../pang/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.15.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pang/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail.[↗](../../pang/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.48.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pang/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound.[↗](../../pang/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.73.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pang/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?[↗](../../pang/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.13.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pang/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/3/) **4** 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