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Etiolate

//ˈiːti.əleɪt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    etiolated
Adjective
  1. 1
    (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
  2. 2
    make pale or sickly wordnet
  3. 3
    To make pale and sickly-looking.

    "She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have etiolated a white woman to bled veal."

  4. 4
    bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight wordnet
  5. 5
    To become pale or blanched. intransitive
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  1. 6
    make weak by stunting the growth or development of wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).

Etymology 2

French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).

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