etiolate verb trans. ['i:tɪǝ(ʊ)leɪt] L18.[French étioler from Norman French (s')étieuler grow into haulm, from ét
i. eule (Old French esteule, estuble, mod. éteule): see STUBBLE noun, -ATE3.]Make (a plant) pale by excluding light; give a pale and sickly hue to (a person);
fig. cause to lose vigour or substance. Chiefly as
etiolated ppl adjective.
■ B. R. O. Anderson Marxist and liberal theory have become etiolated in a late Ptolemaic attempt to 'save the phenomena'. ■ etio'lation noun L18. [TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲