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

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
2. intransitive verb. To become pale through disease or absence of light.
3. transitive verb. To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
4. transitive verb. To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.
5. adjective. Alt. of Etiolated
6. verb. make pale or sickly

   "alcohol etiolates your skin"

7. verb. bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
8. verb. make weak by stunting the growth or development of
9. adjective. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light

   "etiolated celery"

   Synonyms: blanched, etiolated

Synonyms

blanched, etiolated

Common word forms

etiolated, etiolates, etiolating

Words from these letters

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