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Word of the Day – Etiolate

By December 21, 2025Word of the Day

Etiolate (verb)

et-ee-oh-lee-ayt

To cause a plant to grow pale through lack of light / to become weak or sickly, to drain of colour. 

(of plants) to whiten or grow pale through lack of light.

Example sentences

“I find I simply etoliate in the winter, getting paler and more ghost like by the week. ”

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