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pal·lid
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pale
light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home. -
blate
exhibiting corpselike qualities, for example a pallid tone, insensibility, or lack of spirits -
chemopallidectomy
an operation for treating Parkinson's disease and certain other diseases characterized by muscular rigidity, consisting of destroying a specific part of the corpus striatum by injecting it with a chemical, usually alcohol. -
doughy
of or like dough, especially in being soft and heavy or pallid and flabby: a doughy consistency; a fat, doughy face. -
ghastly
shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder. -
lurid
gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.