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.
Source: wiktionary
Etiolate
//ˈiːti.əleɪt//
Synonyms for "etiolate" (32 found)
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8 translations across 3 languages.
German
2 entries- etiolieren verb (to make pale through lack of light)
- vergeilen verb (to make pale through lack of light)
Greenlandic
2 entries- asingavaa verb (to make pale through lack of light)
- paqqingavaa verb (to make pale through lack of light)
Russian
4 entries- бледне́ть verb (to make a person pale and sickly-looking)
- обесцвечивать расте́ния verb (to make pale through lack of light)
- станови́ться бледным verb (to make a person pale and sickly-looking)
- этиолировать verb (to make pale through lack of light)
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Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.
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