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Webster 1913 Edition
Etiolate
E′ti-o-late
.Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Etiolated
(#)
; p. pr. & vb. n
. Etiolating
.] [F.
étioler
to blanch.] 1.
To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
2.
(Med.)
To become pale through disease or absence of light.
E′ti-o-late
,Verb.
T.
1.
To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun’s rays.
Webster 1828 Edition
Etiolate
E'TIOLATE
,Verb.
I.
E'TIOLATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
etiolate
etiolate
English
Verb
etiolate (third-person singular simple present etiolates, present participle etiolating, simple past and past participle etiolated)
- To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
- To make pale and sickly-looking.
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
- 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.
- 1995, Martin Amis, The information:
- Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.
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- (intransitive) To become pale or blanched.
Related terms
Translations
to make pale through lack of light
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to make a person pale and sickly-looking
Adjective
etiolate (comparative more etiolate, superlative most etiolate)