BLANCH DEFINITIONS - 14 definitions found
blanch v 1: turn pale, as if in fear [syn: pale, blanch, blench] 2: cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them" [syn: blanch, parboil] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) blanch verb Etymology: Middle English blaunchen, from Anglo-French blanchir, from blanc, adjective, white — more at blank Date: 15th century transitive verb to take the color out of: as a. to bleach by excluding light b. to scald or parboil in water or steam in order to remove the skin from, whiten, or stop enzymatic action in (as food for freezing) c. to make ashen or pale <fear blanches the cheek> intransitive verb to become white or pale • blancher noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary blanch (blanches, blanching, blanched) 1. If you blanch, you suddenly become very pale. His face blanched as he looked at Sharpe's blood-drenched uniform... She felt herself blanch at the unpleasant memories. VERB: V, V at n 2. If you say that someone blanches at something, you mean that they find it unpleasant and do not want to be involved with it. Everything he had said had been a mistake. He blanched at his miscalculations... VERB: V at n 3. If you blanch vegetables, fruit, or nuts, you put them into boiling water for a short time, usually in order to remove their skins, or to prepare them for freezing. Skin the peaches by blanching them. VERB: V n English Explanatory Dictionary blanch blɑ:ntʃ v. 1 tr. make white or pale by extracting colour. 2 intr. & tr. grow or make pale from shock, fear, etc. 3 tr. Cookery a peel (almonds etc.) by scalding. b immerse (vegetables or meat) briefly in boiling water. 4 tr. whiten (a plant) by depriving it of light. øblanch over give a deceptively good impression of (a fault etc.) by misrepresentation. [ME f. OF blanchir f. blanc white, BLANK] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Blanch \Blanch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanched; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanching.] [OE. blanchen, blaunchen, F. blanchir, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a.] 1. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair. 2. (Gardening) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. 3. (Confectionery & Cookery) (a) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds. (b) 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. 4. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.). 5. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. 6. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things. --Tillotson. Syn: To Blanch, Whiten. Usage: To whiten is the generic term, denoting, to render white; as, to whiten the walls of a room. Usually (though not of necessity) this is supposed to be done by placing some white coloring matter in or upon the surface of the object in question. To blanch is to whiten by the removal of coloring matter; as, to blanch linen. So the cheek is blanched by fear, i. e., by the withdrawal of the blood, which leaves it white. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Blanch \Blanch\, v. i. To use evasion. [Obs.] Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch. --Bacon. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Blanch \Blanch\, n. (Mining) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Blanch \Blanch\, v. i. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. [Bones] blanching on the grass. --Tennyson. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Blanch \Blanch\, v. t. [See Blench.] 1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. [Obs.] Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger. --Bacon. I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way. --Reliq. Wot. 2. To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer. Blanch, NC Zip code(s): 27212 Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms blanch I. v. a. Bleach, whiten, etiolate, make or render white. II. v. n. Bleach, whiten, pale, etiolate, become white, fade. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 106 Moby Thesaurus words for "blanch": ache, achromatize, agonize, ail, anguish, bake, barbecue, baste, besnow, bleach, bleach out, blench, blush, boil, braise, brew, broil, brown, chalk, change color, coddle, color, cook, crimson, curry, darken, decolor, decolorize, devil, dim, discolor, do, do to perfection, drain, drain of color, dull, etiolate, fade, fade out, feel pain, feel the pangs, fire, flinch, flush, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, frost, fry, fume, glow, griddle, grill, grimace, grizzle, grow pale, have a misery, heat, hurt, look black, lose color, mantle, oven-bake, pale, pan, pan-broil, parboil, peroxide, poach, pound, prepare, prepare food, quail, redden, roast, saute, scallop, sear, shirr, shoot, shrink, silver, simmer, smart, squinch, start, steam, stew, stir-fry, suffer, tarnish, thrill, throb, tone down, turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn white, twinge, twitch, wan, wash out, white, whiten, wince, writhe |
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