blanch
blanch is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
- adjective. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
- adjective. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
- adjective. 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.
- adjective. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
- adjective. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- adjective. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
- intransitive verb. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
- transitive verb. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- transitive verb. To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
- intransitive verb. To use evasion.
- noun. Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
- verb. turn pale, as if in fear
- verb. cook (vegetables) briefly
"Parboil the beans before freezing them"
Synonyms
Common word forms
blanched, blancher, blanches, blanching
Words from these letters
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