Kelly Reilly is set to board event TV series Britannia. The series, charts the Roman invasion of what would become Great Britain Kelly Reilly is set to board event TV series Britannia.
To dilate something is to make it wider. When the light fades, the pupil of your eye will dilate, meaning it looks bigger. The verb dilate comes from the Latin word dilatare, which means âenlargeâ or âspread out.â When something stretches, expands, or becomes wider, it is said to dilate.
Etiolate is more apt to refer to depriving plants in general of light; when etiolated, they are sickly, pale, and spindly. The figurative sense of etiolate (to make pallid or feeble) first appeared in the 1800s as a natural outgrowth of the original sense.