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blanch

See also: Blanch

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).

Cognates

Cognate with blench (“to deceive, to trick”) through Proto-Indo-European, whence other etymology of blanch.

Verb

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blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)

  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, 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. (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
    Synonym: palliate
    • c. 1680, John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture
      Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
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Etymology 2

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Variant of blench, of same Proto-Indo-European origin.

Verb

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blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)

  1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  2. To cause to turn aside or back.
    to blanch a deer
  3. To use evasion.

Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French blanche (“white”).

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Adjective

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blanch

  1. white
    Synonym: blan

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Etymology

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From Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish. Compare Italian bianco.

Adjective

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blanch

  1. white
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