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Etiolate

Definitions: Etiolate

Etiolate

Adjective

1. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery".

Verb

1. Make weak by stunting the growth or development of.

2. Bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight.

3. Make pale or sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Etiolate

Synonyms: blanched (adj), etiolated (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Etiolate

English words defined with "etiolate": Etiolating. (references)
Etymologies containing "etiolate": Etoolin. (references)

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Expression: Etiolate

Expression using "etiolate": blanched etiolate etiolated whitened. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Etiolate

Language Translations for "etiolate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rrit bimë në errësirë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ذبل (consume, fade, flag, languish, quail, sear, shell, shrivel, wilt, wither, wizen), ‏بيض (blanch, bleach, ovulate, whiten). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

карам растение да повехне, карам да посърне. (various references)

   

Czech

  

bílit (blanch, bleach, whiten). (various references)

   

French

  

étioler. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elsárgít. (various references)

   

Italian

  

svigorire, sbiancare (chemic, go pale, grass, grass bleach, to bleach, turn white), infiacchire, indebolire (break down, depress, enervations, enfeeble, impair, impoverish, undermine, weaken, weaknesses), fare scolorire tenendo al buio, fare impallidire. (various references)

   

Manx

  

banaghey (pale). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etiolateay

   

Portuguese

  

etileno, estiolar (rot). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

etiola, face sã se gãlbejeascã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

делать бледным. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

rasti u mraku. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

descolorar (bleach, decolor, decolour, discolor, discolour, fade). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

göra sjukligt blek. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้อ่อนแอ (dilute with, impair), ทำให้ขาวซี"และสุข าพไม่"ี. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

soldurmak (blanch, decolor, decolorize, decolour, decolourize, discolor, discolour, fade, pale, wear, wither), ışıksızlıktan solmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

робити блідим, етіолувати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Etiolate

Derivations

Words beginning with "etiolate": etiolated, etiolates. (additional references)

Words ending with "etiolate": petiolate. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Etiolate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: actinolite, detiorate, etiole, etoilate, ettelaat, extiolate, merthiolate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Etiolate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-o-t-t"

-2 letters: etoile, oleate, toilet.

-3 letters: atilt, elate, elite, latte, lotte, telae, telia, teloi, title, toile, total.

-4 letters: alee, alit, aloe, alto, ilea, iota, late, lati, leet, lite, lota, loti, olea, tael, tail, tale, tali, tate, teal, teat, teel, tela, tele, tile, tilt, toea, toil, toit, tola, tole, tote.

-5 letters: ail, ait, ale, alt, ate, att.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-o-t-t"
 

+1 letter: etiolated, etiolates, petiolate.

 

+2 letters: metabolite, obliterate, tolerative.

 

+3 letters: delectation, dilatometer, interpolate, metabolites, nonliterate, obliterated, obliterates, teetotaling, teetotalism, teetotalist, tetralogies, theoretical.

 

+4 letters: acetonitrile, andouillette, antielectron, atheoretical, delectations, dilatometers, exploitative, interpolated, interpolates, jettisonable, meteoritical, nonliterates, obliterative, postliterate, repetitional, retinotectal, teetotalisms, teetotalists, teetotalling, teratologies, tessellation, vegetational.

 

+5 letters: acetonitriles, andouillettes, antielectrons, contemplative, contextualize, cytogenetical, dilatometries, electrostatic, epitheliomata, equipotential, expectational, exterritorial, extrapolative, heterothallic, incontestable, interpellator, interpolative, interrelation, intersocietal, nonretractile, osteoplasties, overstimulate, overtalkative, pelletization, retroactively, septentrional, stereotypical, teleportation, temporalities, tessellations, tetrachloride, tetrafluoride, tetraploidies, theoretically, untheoretical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Etiolate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 74 69 6F 6C 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0074 0069 006F 006C 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3986758178678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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