Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
- 2adjective
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
- 3adjective
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
- 4adjective
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.
- 5adjective
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
- 6adjective
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- 7adjective
Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
- 8intransitive verb
To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
- 9transitive verb
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- 10transitive verb
To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
- 11intransitive verb
To use evasion.
- 12noun
Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
- 13verb
turn pale, as if in fear
- 14verb
cook (vegetables) briefly
"Parboil the beans before freezing them"
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