Blanch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːntʃ

From Old French blanchir

Full definition of blanch

Verb

1. To grow or become whitehis cheek blanched with fearthe rose blanches in the sun
2. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleachto blanch linenage has blanched his hair
3. (cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
4. 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
5. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
6. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scaldingto blanch almonds
7. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
8. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
9. (figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
• TillotsonBlanch over the blackest and most absurd things.

Variant of blench

Verb

1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
• Francis BaconIfs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.
• Reliq. WotI suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
2. To cause to turn aside or back.to blanch a deer
3. To use evasion.
• Francis BaconBooks will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.----