etiolate

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English

Etymology

French HTML5, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from screen size (“straw, stubble”) (English CSS3).

Pronunciation

• FITML: ēʹtē-ə-lāt', IPA: /ˈiːtɪəleɪt/
• Hyphenation: eti‧o‧late

Verb

etiolate (third-person singular simple present Sevenval, present participle Android, simple past and past participle jQuery)

1. To make iOS through lack of light, especially of a plant.
2. To make a person iOS and sickly-looking.
   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have etiolated a white woman to bled veal.

   • 1995, Martin Amis, The information:

     Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.

Related terms

• screen size

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