Etiolate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Botany To cause (a plant) to develop without chlorophyll by preventing exposure to sunlight.
  • v. To cause to appear pale and sickly: a face that was etiolated from years in prison.
  • v. To make weak by stunting the growth or development of.
  • verb-intransitive. Botany To become blanched or whitened, as when grown without sunlight.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
  • v. To make a person pale and sickly-looking.
  • adj. etiolated
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
  • verb-intransitive. To become pale through disease or absence of light.
  • v. To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
  • v. To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.
  • adj. Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To grow white from absence of the normal amount of coloring matter, as the leaves or stalks of plants; be whitened by exclusion of the light of the sun, as plants: sometimes, in pathology, said of persons.
  • To blanch; whiten by exclusion of the sun's rays or by disease.
  • Synonyms Blanch, etc. See whiten.
  • Also etiolize.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
  • adj. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
  • v. make weak by stunting the growth or development of
  • v. make pale or sickly
    • Equivalent
    colorless    colourless    etiolated   
    Verb Form
    etiolated    etiolates    etiolating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter    weaken   
    Form
    etiolated    etiolating   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    blanch    bleach   
     
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