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Etiolate   Listen
verb
Etiolate  v. i.  (past & past part. etiolated; pres. part. etiolating)  
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.






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"Etiolate" Quotes from Famous Books



... &c adj.; etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white. V. lose color &c 428; fade, fly, go; become colorless &c adj.; turn pale, pale. deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch, etiolate, wash out, tone down. Adj. uncolored &c (color) &c 428; 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, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Etiolate" :   blanched, etiolation, colourless, flora, modify, colorless, change, alter, plant



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