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Etiolate is one of the words that I have difficulty in using within a proper context.

Mira read the telegram and went pale.
The telegram etiolated Mira.

Etiology is similar word but comes from a differenct source by the way.

etiolated is a plant that has grown tall thin and pale seeking the sun where it can't get enough to build any good chlorophil to be healthy.
I use it t discribe a certain class of female child who has grown tall and painfully thin, whose clothing seems to hover 1/2 inch above the surface of her skin. But I'm using it wrong too.


Katy

etiolated is a plant that has grown tall thin and pale seeking the sun where it can't get enough to build any good chlorophil to be healthy.
Katy

FWIW, that's the only way I ever used it.