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third-person singular simple present etiolates, present participle etiolating, simple past and past participle etiolated
To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant. examples
To make pale and sickly-looking. quotations examples
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
(intransitive) To become pale or blanched. examples
comparative more etiolate, superlative most etiolate
etiolated examples