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 Peter Mark Roget
V. be white &c. adj. render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.
From Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
I can not believe that, to produce one roseate complexion, she must etiolate a thousand.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
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
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
Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2019
Her people have elongated faces and pale forms; they’re etiolated Modiglianis.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2010
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
