blanching
verb
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To grow or become white
Example: His cheek blanched with fear.
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
Example: 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
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To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
To cause to turn aside or back.
Example: to blanch a deer
To use evasion.
noun
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The act by which something is blanched.