etiolate

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: e=ti=o=late

CIDE DICTIONARY

etiolate, v. 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]

etiolate, v. 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.

etiolate, a. 

 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.