See blanch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).\nCognates\nCognate with blench (“to deceive, to trick”) through Proto-Indo-European, whence other etymology of blanch.",
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"text": "His cheek blanched with fear.",
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{
"text": "The rose blanches in the sun.",
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"ref": "1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:",
"text": "Nurse Cramer's face blanched and she turned to Dunbar desperately for aid.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1984, Tom Clancy, “The Seventeenth Day: Sunday, 19 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 456:",
"text": "\"Where is the target?\"\n\"Bearing zero-four-five, Comrade. Bearing is constant,\" the michman replied, \"closing rapidly.\"\nTupolev blanched. \"Left full rudder, all ahead flank!\"",
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"(intransitive) To grow or become white."
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"word": "焯"
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"sense": "to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water",
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"word": "blanchieren"
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"word": "blansíroz"
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"imperfective",
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"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."
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"stalk",
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[
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[
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[
"earth",
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"(transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together."
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"text": "to blanch almonds",
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"To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding."
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"(transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding."
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"sense": "to make white",
"word": "witten"
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"sense": "to make white",
"word": "valkaista"
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"sense": "to make white",
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"Rhymes:English/æntʃ",
"Rhymes:English/æntʃ/1 syllable",
"Rhymes:English/ɑːntʃ",
"Rhymes:English/ɑːntʃ/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Variant of blench, of same Proto-Indo-European origin.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "blanches",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "blanching",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "blanched",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "blanched",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:",
"text": "Ifs and ands to qualify words of treason; whereby every man might express his malice, and blanch his danger.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1624-39, Sir Henry Wotton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (published 1651), page 343",
"text": "I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed."
],
"links": [
[
"avoid",
"avoid"
],
[
"evade",
"evade"
]
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "to blanch a deer"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to turn aside or back."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Counsel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:",
"text": "Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use evasion."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/blɑːnt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/blænt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːntʃ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æntʃ"
}
],
"word": "blanch"
}
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