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BLANCH

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn pale, as if in fear

Synonyms:

blanch; blench; pale

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "blanch" is one way to...):

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cook (vegetables) briefly

Example:

Parboil the beans before freezing them

Synonyms:

blanch; parboil

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "blanch" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs blanch the vegetables

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 Context examples: 

Alleyne, glancing at her, noted that her breath came quick and short, and that her cheeks had blanched to a lily white.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well might she put the question: his face was blanched as her gown.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The man was sitting up, blanched and ghastly, with returning reason in his eyes, and hands which rubbed nervously at the broad red band which still encircled his throat.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At Sir Nigel's words he started violently, and his swarthy features blanched to a livid gray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The stillness of early morning slumbered everywhere; the curtains were yet drawn over the servants' chamber windows; little birds were just twittering in the blossom-blanched orchard trees, whose boughs drooped like white garlands over the wall enclosing one side of the yard; the carriage horses stamped from time to time in their closed stables: all else was still.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)