blanches

Noun

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Verb

blanches verb

1. To grow or become white“His cheek blanched with fear.”
2. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach“Age has blanched his hair.”
3. To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
4. To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices

blanches verb

1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
2. To cause to turn aside or back.“to blanch a deer”
3. To use evasion.