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# pallor

«pallor» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unhealthy paleness of the face or skin, from illness…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (pallor, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Unhealthy paleness of the face or skin, from illness, fear, shock or tiredness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallor/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and descriptions, "pallor" is a strong, slightly formal word to show a character is ill, frightened or ghostly. Doctors and nurses notice pallor as a sign of illness or blood loss. Phrases: a deathly pallor, a sickly pallor.

### examples

- His pallor showed he had not slept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallor/#x1)
- The patient's pallor worried the doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallor/#x2)
- A deathly pallor spread across her face when she saw the ghost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallor/#x3)
- After the long winter, his pallor was gone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallor/#x4)
- The vampire in the book had a strange pallor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallor/#x5)
- Her pallor faded as she drank some sweet tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallor/#x6)

### note

Uncountable; formal and descriptive. Similar to "paleness". Spelling ends in -or, not -our (it is not "pallour").

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pallor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.