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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'etiolate' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions etiolate verb  to make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant to make a person pale and sickly-looking 1980: 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. " Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers 1995: Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker. " Martin Amis, i: theinformation Etymology: French étolier, from Normandy French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble "stubble", from Latin stupla, from stipula "straw, stubble".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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