ETIOLATE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

2.
v.

To become pale through disease or absence of light.

3.
v.

To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

4.
v.

To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.