etiolate
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If the nut is planted deep this causes much suckering and a tendency to etiolate the buds so they will stand water.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
V. be white &c. adj.. render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
I can not believe that, to produce one roseate complexion, she must etiolate a thousand.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
V. be white &c. adj. render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.
From Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
A sadly etiolated Princess Margaret died at 71 in 2002.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
However, when succulents become etiolated, they can only grow thicker new growth once sunlight is corrected.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
To me, though, “Romance in Marseille” reflects the 1930s discovery and celebration of outcasts, rogues and criminals, all of them regarded as more vital and passionate than the upright citizens of etiolated bourgeois society.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020
Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2019
Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.
From "1984" by George Orwell
