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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