Synonyms of the word etiolate


ETIOLATEALTER - BLANCHED - CHANGE - COLORLESS - COLOURLESS - ETIOLATED - MODIFY - WEAKEN

etiolate

  • v. To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
  • v. To make pale and sickly-looking.
  • v. (intransitive) To become pale or blanched.
  • adj. etiolated.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

blanched

  • adj. lacking complexion or color.
  • adj. bleached.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of blanch.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

colorless

  • adj. American standard spelling of colourless.

colourless

  • adj. Having little or no colour.
  • adj. (of a liquid) Water white.
  • adj. Lacking in interest or variety.

etiolated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of etiolate.
  • adj. Blanched because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight.
  • adj. (botany) Grown in the dark.
  • adj. (figuratively) Lacking in vigour, feeble, anemic.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

weaken

  • v. (transitive) To make weaker.
  • v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

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