etiolate

verb

/ˈiːti.əleɪt/

Etymology

French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).

derived from stubble)
derived from stupla
derived from estuble — “stubble”
derived from étieuler
derived from étioler

Definitions

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

The neighborhood

neighborstubble

Derived

etiolin

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