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Etiolate

 : 
Verb (usu participle)
 : 
e=ti=o=late

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Etiolate has 3 senses

Adjective Etiolate has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Etiolatev. i. [F. étioler to blanch.].
  •  To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To become pale through disease or absence of light.  [1913 Webster]
Etiolatev. t. 
  •  To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.
Etiolatea. 
     Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Etiolate, v.tr.
1 make (a plant) pale by excluding light.
2 give a sickly hue to (a person).

Derivative
etiolation n.
Etymology
F {eacute}tioler f. Norman F {eacute}tieuler make into haulm f. {eacute}teule ult. f. L stipula straw

ROGET THESAURUS

Etiolate

Achromatism

VB lose color, fade, fly, go, become colorless, turn pale, pale, deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch, etiolate, wash out, tone down.

N achromatism, decoloration, discoloration, pallor, pallidness, pallidity, paleness, etiolation, neutral tint, monochrome, black and white, uncolored &c (color), colorless, achromatic, aplanatic, etiolate, etiolated, hueless, pale, pallid, palefaced, tallow-faced, faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair, blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.

Whiteness

VB be white, render white, whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.

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