Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To take the color from; bleach.
- transitive v. To whiten (a growing plant or plant part) by covering to cut off direct light.
- transitive v. To whiten (a metal) by soaking in acid or by coating with tin.
- transitive v. To scald (almonds, for example) in order to loosen the skin.
- transitive v. To scald (food) briefly, as before freezing or as a preliminary stage in preparing a dish.
- transitive v. To cause to turn white or become pale.
- intransitive v. To turn white or become pale: Their faces blanched in terror.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
- v. To grow or become white
- v. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
- v. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- v. To cause to turn aside or back
- v. To use evasion.
- v. To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- v. 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
- v. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
- v. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding
- v. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- v. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- v. To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
- intransitive v. To grow or become white.
- intransitive v. To use evasion.
- transitive v. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- transitive v. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
- transitive v.
- transitive v. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding.
- transitive v. 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.
- transitive v. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
- transitive v. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- transitive v. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
- transitive v. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- transitive v. To cause to turn aside or back.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- White; pale.
- Same as blench.
- literally, pale fever; hence, to have the blanch fever is either to be in love or to be sick with wantonness.
- n. Same as blanc, 3.
- n. A white spot on the skin.
- n. In mining, a piece of ore found isolated in the hard rock.
- To make white; whiten by depriving of color; render colorless: as, to blanch linen.
- In horticulture, to whiten or prevent from becoming green by excluding the light: a process applied to the stems or leaves of plants, such as celery, lettuce, sea-kale, etc.
- To make pale, as with sickness, fear, cold, etc.
- Figuratively, to give a fair appearance to, as an immoral act; palliate; slur; pass over.
- In cookery, to soak (as meat or vegetables) in hot water, or to scald by a short, rapid boiling, for the purpose of producing firmness or whiteness.
- In the arts, to whiten or make lustrous (as metals) by acids or other means; also, to cover with a thin coating of tin.
- Synonyms and Etiolate, etc. See whiten.
- To become white; turn pale.
- To shun or avoid, as from fear; evade.
- To shrink; shift; equivocate.
- To blanch silver, to oxidize copper superficially, when present in an alloy with silver, by heating to redness in the air, and then dissolving out the oxid of copper by dilute sulphuric acid, thus leaving the surface of the object with the white appearance of pure silver.
- n. Lead ore mixed with other minerals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. cook (vegetables) briefly
- v. turn pale, as if in fear
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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When loking at their areas of responsibility on which they have carte blanche to spend our taxes, blanch is the word.
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•Seasoned: Quickly parboil aka blanch, drain, then place in a hot skillet or wok with a tablespoon or two of your favorite high-heat cooking oil and toss to coat.
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So far in this endeaver, I have learned how to 'blanch' rutabaga's so that they can be frozen.
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I can't say in your case, but I do see sometimes tissue "blanch" due to either compression of the tissues from the fluid or vasoconstriction from the epinephrine in the anesthetic-shrinks the blood vessels.
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As a white person, Terre'blanch's death "leaves me cold" - to quote an apartheid notable.
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All the accoutrements of the locusts who swept into power and gave carte blanch to their investor bank buddies.
Think Progress » Romney Struggles To Distance RomneyCare From ObamaCare: Ours Was ‘Bipartisan’
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Most were in their 50s, an age that can cause a would-be employer to blanch.
Middle-Class Struggles, Americans Treading Water In Gulf Between Rich And Poor
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A recent Op-Ed in the NY Times explores the autism-toxin connection in more depth and concludes, "At a time when many Americans still use plastic containers to microwave food, in ways that make toxicologists blanch, we need accelerated research, regulation and consumer protection."
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Perhaps most encouraging, particularly to those who blanch at the notion of evermore vaccines and antibiotics, are reports suggesting that pro-biotics and dietary components such as yoghurt, buttermilk and other fermented foods may be used to prevent and/or treat H. pylori infection.
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When "Koch" suggested planting 'troublemakers' amongst the protesters, Walker didn't blanch for a moment, even admitting that his team "had thought about that."
sionnach commented on the word blanch
also, "to depend on the kindness of strangers".
May 11, 2009
xntrek commented on the word blanch
To place food (usually fruit & vegetables) into boiling water for a short time, then immediately into iced water to stop them cooking.
May 11, 2009