ALL meanings of blanch
blanch
B b - verb blanch If you blanch, you suddenly become very pale. 3
- verb blanch If you say that someone blanches at something, you mean that they find it unpleasant and do not want to be involved with it. 3
- verb blanch 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. 3
- verb blanch to remove colour from, or (of colour) to be removed; whiten; fade 3
- verb blanch to become or cause to become pale, as with sickness or fear 3
- verb blanch to plunge tomatoes, nuts, etc, into boiling water to loosen the skin 3
- verb blanch to plunge (meat, green vegetables, etc) in boiling water or bring to the boil in water in order to whiten, preserve the natural colour, or reduce or remove a bitter or salty taste 3
- verb blanch to cause (celery, chicory, etc) to grow free of chlorophyll by the exclusion of sunlight 3
- verb blanch to whiten (a metal), usually by treating it with an acid or by coating it with tin 3
- verb blanch to attempt to conceal something 3
- verb transitive blanch to make white; take color out of 3
- verb transitive blanch to make pale 3
- verb transitive blanch to bleach (endive, celery, etc.) by earthing up or covering so as to keep away light and improve the appearance, flavor, or tenderness 3
- verb transitive blanch to scald (as vegetables being prepared for freezing) 3
- verb transitive blanch to scald (almonds) so as to remove the skins 3
- verb transitive blanch to brighten with acid or by coating with tin 3
- intransitive verb blanch to whiten; turn pale 3
- verb with object blanch to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry. 1
- verb without object blanch to become white; turn pale: The very thought of going made him blanch. 1
- transitive verb blanch cookery: soften by boiling 1
- intransitive verb blanch person: turn pale 1
- verb blanch To grow or become white. 0
- verb blanch To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach. 0
- verb blanch (cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water. 0
- verb blanch 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. 0
- verb blanch To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. 0
- verb blanch To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding. 0
- verb blanch To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining). 0
- verb blanch To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. 0
- verb blanch (figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. 0
- verb blanch To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. 0
- verb blanch To cause to turn aside or back. 0
- verb blanch To use evasion. 0