etiolate

Other forms of etiolate

past tense

etiolated·

present participle

etiolating·

third person

etiolates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about etiolate

What does etiolate mean?

etiolate means "make weak by stunting the growth or development of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in etiolate?

etiolate has 4 syllables: e-ti-o-late. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for etiolate?

Close synonyms include etiolated, blanched. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is etiolate a common word?

etiolate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.