Crossword clues for etiolate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\ v. i. [imp. & p. p. Etiolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Etiolating.] [F. ['e]tioler to blanch.]
To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
(Med.) To become pale through disease or absence of light.
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\, Etiolated \E"ti*o*la`ted\, a. Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.
Etiolate \E"ti*o*late\, v. t.
To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
(Med.) To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"turn (a plant) white by growing it in darkness," 1791, from French étiolé, past participle of étioler "to blanch" (17c.), perhaps literally "to become like straw," from Norman dialect étule "a stalk," Old French esteule "straw, field of stubble," from Latin stipula "straw" (see stipule). Related: Etiolated.
Wiktionary
etiolated v
1 To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant. 2 To make pale and sickly-looking. 3 (context intransitive English) To become pale or blanched.
WordNet
v. make weak by stunting the growth or development of
bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
make pale or sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin"
Usage examples of "etiolate".
At present, in Great Britain at least, the headmasters entrusted with the education of the bulk of the influential men of the next decades are conspicuously second-rate men, forced and etiolated creatures, scholarship boys manured with annotated editions, and brought up under and protected from all current illumination by the kale-pot of the Thirty-nine Articles.
Only four days since I had landed here first, in my first African dawn, over a grey ochreish plain dotted exactly as it should be with the etiolated acacias you see on all the posters, and wildebeest and buffalo we were coming in over the Nairobi National Park.
The first seedling observed was nearly two inches in height and had been etiolated by having been grown in darkness.
It was not at all like the Catholic masses of Enderby's youth, dyspeptic Maynooth leprechauns peevish about last week's collections, or the anaemic evensongs of his brief curative Anglicanism, with fine if archaic Jacobean prose apologetically delivered by cricketing rectors and very well-made hymns bleated by conservativeclubcakebaking etiolated housewives with herb gardens.
Wells draws an admirable picture of a dichotomized humanity, one branch etiolated and inane, the other brutalized and automatic.