blanched

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English

Definitions

verb

To grow or become white“His cheek blanched with fear.”
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach“Age has blanched his hair.”
To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices

verb

To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
To cause to turn aside or back.“to blanch a deer”
To use evasion.

adjective

Lacking complexion or color
Bleached

Related words

Synonyms

palliate pale pallid colourless bloodless etiolate livid colorless white etiolated ashen paled bleached almond complexionless bleak blank blushless

Associated

spinach peanut chopped garlic seasoned steamed vegetables boiled sauce cooked paste boiling

Rhymes

branched flanched stanched ranched

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