blanch
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To grow or become white.
His cheek blanched with fear.
The rose blanches in the sun.
- 2.
(transitive)To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
to blanch linen
Age has blanched his hair.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- 4.
(transitive)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.
- 5.
(transitive)To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
- 6.
(transitive)To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
to blanch almonds
- 7.
(transitive)To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- 8.
(intransitive)To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- 9.
(figuratively, transitive)To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
c. 1680, John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
Đồng nghĩa: palliate
- 10.
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
- 11.
To cause to turn aside or back.
to blanch a deer
- 12.
To use evasion.
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From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (white), from blancus, from *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (bright, shining, blinding, white), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (to shine).