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Meaning of blanched

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

blanched

verb

Definitions

  1. To grow or become white

    Example: His cheek blanched with fear.

  2. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach

    Example: Age has blanched his hair.

  3. To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.

  4. 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

Definitions

  1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

  2. To cause to turn aside or back.

    Example: to blanch a deer

  3. To use evasion.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Lacking complexion or color

  2. Bleached