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[blanch, blahnch] Pronunciation Key
[blanch, blahnch] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to whiten by removing color; bleach: Workers were blanching linen in the sun. |
| 2. | Cookery.
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| 3. | Horticulture. (of the stems or leaves of plants, as celery or lettuce) to whiten or prevent from becoming green by excluding light. |
| 4. | Metallurgy.
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| 5. | to make pale, as with sickness or fear: The long illness had blanched her cheeks of their natural color. |
| 6. | to become white; turn pale: The very thought of going made him blanch. |
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[blanch, blahnch] Pronunciation Key
[blanch, blahnch] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object)
| to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry. |
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(blānch) Pronunciation Key
v. blanched also blenched, blanch·ing also blench·ing, blanch·es also blench·es v. tr.
v. intr. To turn white or become pale: Their faces blanched in terror. [Middle English blaunchen, to make white, from Old French blanchir, from blanche, feminine of blanc, white, of Germanic origin; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.] blanch'er n. |
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blanch (1)
blanch (1)
1398, from O.Fr. blanchir "to whiten," from blanc "white" (see blank). Originally "to remove the hull of (almonds, etc.) by soaking." Intrans. sense of "to turn white" is from 1768.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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blanch (2)
blanch (2)
"to start back, turn aside," 1572, variant of blench (q.v.).
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| blanch | |
verb | |
| 1. | turn pale, as if in fear [syn: pale] |
| 2. | cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them" |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Blanch, NC Zip code(s): 27212
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Blanch
Blanch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanched; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanching.] [OE. blanchen, blaunchen, F. blanchir, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a.]1. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair. 2. (Gardening) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. 3. (Confectionery & Cookery) (a) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds. (b) 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. 4. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.). 5. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. 6. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things. --Tillotson. Syn: To Blanch, Whiten. Usage: To whiten is the generic term, denoting, to render white; as, to whiten the walls of a room. Usually (though not of necessity) this is supposed to be done by placing some white coloring matter in or upon the surface of the object in question. To blanch is to whiten by the removal of coloring matter; as, to blanch linen. So the cheek is blanched by fear, i. e., by the withdrawal of the blood, which leaves it white.
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Blanch
Blanch\, v. i. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. [Bones] blanching on the grass. --Tennyson.
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Blanch
Blanch\, v. t. [See Blench.]1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. [Obs.] Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger. --Bacon. I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way. --Reliq. Wot. 2. To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
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Blanch
Blanch\, v. i. To use evasion. [Obs.] Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch. --Bacon.
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Blanch
Blanch\, n. (Mining) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
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