Today's Word "Etiolate"
Published in Vocabulary
etiolate \EE-tee-eh-leyt\ (verb) - 1 : To bleach or make pale, especially by depriving of light. 2 : To make feeble or sickly.
"Alex had a face etiolated from years of lurking in the dank recesses of pool halls."
This word is used most often in its horticultural sense, as in "etiolated asparagus," i.e. white from light deprivation. French etioler, from etieuler "to grow into haulm," from eteule "stalk," from Old French "esteule" originating in Latin stipula "stalk, stem, stubble, blade."
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