etiolate
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V. be white &c. adj.. render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
If the nut is planted deep this causes much suckering and a tendency to etiolate the buds so they will stand water.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
I can not believe that, to produce one roseate complexion, she must etiolate a thousand.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
V. be white &c. adj. render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.
From Roget's Thesaurus by Roget, Peter Mark
A sadly etiolated Princess Margaret died at 71 in 2002.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
Succulent varieties that require more direct light will become etiolated and lose color without it.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
“Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2018
Like the etiolated hero of “Partisans,” my uncle believed that his privileged background and private schooling had stunted his personal growth.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.
From "1984" by George Orwell
