To blanch is to turn pale, usually as the result of a physical or psychological shock. Nineteenth century literary heroines were frequently blanching before they fainted, that is.
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach;
Verb
turn pale, as if in fear
Verb
cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them"
a.
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to
blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
a.
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves
of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
a.
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as,
to blanch almonds.
a.
To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling
water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain
the juices.
a.
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the
process of coining.).
a.
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
a.
Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to
whitewash; to palliate.
v. i.
To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with
fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
v. t.
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
v. t.
To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
v. i.
To use evasion.
n.
Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
Blanch
Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
Blanch
[Bones] blanching on the grass.
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Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.
I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.2.
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Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch.
Blanch
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach;
To grow or become white;
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
To use evasion.
Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
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