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Definitions for Etiolate
[1] to cause (a plant) to whiten or grow pale by excluding light: to etiolate celery.
[2] to cause to become weakened or sickly; drain of color or vigor.
[3] (of plants) to whiten or grow pale through lack of light.
[4] botany to whiten (a green plant) through lack of sunlight
[5] to become or cause to become pale and weak, as from malnutrition
Words related to Etiolate
blanch, wan, exhaust, faint, sicken, whiten, fade, bleach, diminish, enervate, pale
Words nearby Etiolate
ethynyl group, ethynylation, eti, etic, etidronate disodium, etiolate, etiolation, etiologic, etiology, etiquette, etna
Origin of Etiolate
1785–95; < French étioler to make pale, etiolate (plants), probably derivative, based on N French dial. forms, of standard French éteule, Old French estoble, estuble stubble; see -ate1
Other words from Etiolate
e·ti·o·la·tion , noun
etiolate verb
Word origin for Etiolate
C18: from French étioler to make pale, probably from Old French estuble straw, from Latin stipula
Synonyms for Etiolate
blanch, bleach, diminish, enervate, exhaust, fade, faint, pale, sicken, wan, whiten