What is "etiolate" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does etiolate mean in English? Meaning of etiolate definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "etiolate" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "etiolate": make weak by stunting the growth or development of

Verb

  • Meaning: make weak by stunting the growth or development of
  • Synonyms: etiolate
  • Hypernyms: weaken
  • Hyphenation: eti‧o‧late

    Meaning of "etiolate": (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
  • Example: etiolated celery
  • Synonyms: blanched etiolate etiolated
  • Similar: colorless colourless
  • Hyphenation: eti‧o‧late

    Meaning of "etiolate": bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight

    Verb

  • Meaning: bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
  • Synonyms: etiolate
  • Hypernyms: alter change modify
  • Hyphenation: eti‧o‧late

    Meaning of "etiolate": make pale or sickly

    Verb

  • Meaning: make pale or sickly
  • Example: alcohol etiolates your skin
  • Synonyms: etiolate
  • Hypernyms: alter change modify
  • Hyphenation: eti‧o‧late

  • Adjective: To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.To make pale and sickly-looking. 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers: 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. 1995, Martin Amis, The information: Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers: 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.1995, Martin Amis, The information: Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.(intransitive) To become pale or blanched.
  • Synonyms:

    blanch, wan, exhaust, faint, sicken, whiten, fade, bleach, diminish, enervate, pale,

    Antonyms:

    animate, invigorate, darken, blacken, brighten, strengthen,

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    etiolate in English: etiolate
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