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etiolate

[ ee-tee-uh-leyt ]

verb (used with object)

etiolated, etiolating.
  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.


verb (used without object)

etiolated, etiolating.
  1. (of plants) to whiten or grow pale through lack of light.

etiolate

/ ˈːɪəʊˌɪ /

verb

  1. botany to whiten (a green plant) through lack of sunlight
  2. to become or cause to become pale and weak, as from malnutrition
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌپˈپDz, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • t··tDz noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of etiolate1

First recorded in 1785–95; < French éپDZ “to make pale, etiolate (plants),” probably derivative of a Norman French dialect form of standard French éٱܱ, Old French estoble, estuble stubble; -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of etiolate1

C18: from French éپDZ to make pale, probably from Old French estuble straw, from Latin stipula
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Succulent varieties that require more direct light will become etiolated and lose color without it.

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To me, though, “Romance in Marseille” reflects the 1930s discovery and celebration of outcasts, rogues and criminals, all of them regarded as more vital and passionate than the upright citizens of etiolated bourgeois society.

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Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense.

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You take in your late granny’s hideous yucca plant, a mostly etiolated stump with a couple of yellow ribbon-like leaves.

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Outdoorsmen were vigorous, muscular Christians — nothing like those studious urban types, as Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, “with their pale, sickly etiolated indoor thoughts!”

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