blanch
/blɑːnt͡ʃ/ verb C2- To grow or become white. · His cheek blanched with fear.· The rose blanches in the sun.
- To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach. · to blanch linen· 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.
- To bleach by excluding 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 blanch almonds
- To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
He/she/it blanches · Past blanched · Past participle blanched · -ing form blanching
Verb forms
- Base form
- blanch
- He/she/it
- blanches
- Past
- blanched
- Past participle
- blanched
- -ing form
- blanching
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Villefort would probably have rather stood opposite the muzzle of a pistol at five-and-twenty paces than have heard this name spoken; but he did not blanch.
By the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a drunkard.
He was a man of small stature, with hair blanched rather by suffering and sorrow than by age.
## THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLANCHED SOLDIER
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