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pale 2, verb (oh)



2 v [I]
literary if your face pales, it becomes whiter than usual because you have had a shock
::Kent's face paled when he saw that Rob had a knife.
pale into insignificance
to seem much less important when compared to something bigger, worse, more serious etc
::The amounts of money involved pale into insignificance when compared with the sums spent each year on research.
pale in/by comparison
to seem small or unimportant compared to something else
pale in/by comparison to/with
::Today's economic problems pale in comparison with those of the 1930s.