Dictionary Entry
etiolate
etiolate is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
- 2intransitive verb
To become pale through disease or absence of light.
- 3transitive verb
To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
- 4transitive verb
To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.
- 5adjective
Alt. of Etiolated
- 6verb
make pale or sickly
"alcohol etiolates your skin"
- 7verb
bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
- 8verb
make weak by stunting the growth or development of
- 9adjective
(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
"etiolated celery"
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