etiolate

To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.

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.

To become pale or blanched.

etiolated