etiolate

verb

1. To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
2. To make pale and sickly-looking.

   “She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have etiolated a white woman to bled veal.”

   “Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.”

3. (intransitive)To become pale or blanched.

adj

1. etiolated