Definition of "etiolated" [etiolated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of etiolate. (verb)
• Blanched because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight. (adjective)
• Grown in the dark (adjective)

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• "Hardly the kind of etiolated artsy sort of thing you're complaining about."
• "The pictures, dramatically arrayed on the walls according to their distance from Hiroshima's Ground Zero, show landscapes of burned-over rubble, concrete and steel buildings reduced to etiolated skeletons, and close-ups of flash burns and other interesting evidence of the awesome destructiveness of the bomb."
• "It is a sign of the etiolated nature of the recovery that both options are currently "in play"."