Meaning of etiolate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
2. To make pale and sickly-looking.
3. To become pale or blanched.
   intransitive

Equivalents

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.”

“Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.”

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