etiolating

Verb

etiolate (third-person singular simple present etiolates, present participle etiolating, simple past and past participle etiolated)

1. To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
2. To make pale and sickly-looking.
   • 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.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
3. (intransitive) To become pale or blanched.

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