etiolate
adjEtymology 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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etiolate
verb/ˈiːti.əleɪt/
Etymology French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).
1
To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
2
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.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
- Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.1995, Martin Amis, The information:
3
To become pale or blanched.