Dictionary

etiolate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• ēʹtē-ə-lāt'
• /ˈiːti.əleɪt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. etiolated

Forms

etiolate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• ēʹtē-ə-lāt'
• /ˈiːti.əleɪt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

etiolin

Relateds

stubble

Translations (8)

de etiolieren (to make pale through lack of light) · ru станови́ться бледным (to make a person pale and sickly-looking) · de vergeilen (to make pale through lack of light) · ru этиолировать (to make pale through lack of light) · kl asingavaa (to make pale through lack of light) · ru обесцвечивать расте́ния (to make pale through lack of light) · kl paqqingavaa (to make pale through lack of light) · ru бледне́ть (to make a person pale and sickly-looking)