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Word: blanch (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

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Proper noun:

  • female|from=French, a less common spelling of Blanche.

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Verb:

  • cooking To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
  • figurative To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
  • To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  • To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
  • To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
  • To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  • To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
  • To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
  • To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
  • To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
  • To use evasion.
  • 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

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