Make weak by stunting the growth or development of.

Roget 429: lose color etc. 428; fade, fly, go; become colorless etc. adj.; turn pale, pale.    deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch, etiolate, wash out, tone down.    ... show more

Roget 430: be white etc. adj.. render white etc. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.   

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

Make pale or sickly.

especially of plants Developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light:
— Etiolated celery.

synonyms: blanched, etiolated.

Roget 429: uncolored etc. (color) etc. 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic^†; etiolate, etiolated; hueless^†, pale, pallid; palefaced^†, tallow-faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored etc. v.. light-colored, fair, blond; white etc. 430.    pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.    ... show more