What does etiolate mean?
Etiolate means To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant..
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/ˈiːti.əleɪt/ · verb
To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant..
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.
Use etiolate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Etiolate means To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant..
Common synonyms include etiolated, blanched, colorless, colourless.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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