blanching

verb

Meaning

To grow or become white
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
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
To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
To cause to turn aside or back.
To use evasion.
The act by which something is blanched.

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