Crossword-Solution: ETIOLATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Etiolate | v. i. | To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants. |
| Etiolate | v. i. | To become pale through disease or absence of light. |
| Etiolate | v. t. | To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays. |
| Etiolate | v. t. | To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light. |
| Etiolate | a. | Alt. of Etiolated |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with ETIOLATE (2)
Etym: [See Etiolate.] (Bot.) Defn: A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll.
Beneath her now, cool and moist in twilight of shadows, grew delicate melampyre that brought light into the herbage, stood the wan seed-vessels of bygone bluebells, and trailed grasses, with other soft, etiolate things that had never known direct sunshine.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1947–2015).