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etiolate

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈiːti.əleɪt/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted aeeilottStarts with EEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. make pale or sickly

Word origin

French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.

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