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9 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb make weak by stunting the growth or development of
verb bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
verb make pale or sickly
originFrom etiolate + -ed (suffix forming adjectives); modelled after French étiolé, the past participle of étioler (“to become pale and weak, etiolate”), from Norman étieuler (“to become plant stalks left over after harvesting to be used as fodder or for thatching”), probably from éteule (“plant stalks left over after harvesting, stubble”) + -er (suffix forming verbs). Éteule is derived from Old…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- toileted 9
- etiolate 8
- toadlet 8
- totaled 8
- aedile 7
- delate 7
- detail 7
- dilate 7
- dottel 7
- dottle 7
- eidola 7
- elated 7