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"etymology_text": "From blank + -en.",
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"form": "blankens",
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"ref": "1949, House in the Sun, page 167",
"text": "I asked Obdulia if she weren't afraid of the police. Her face blankened. \"Oh, I never saw the witch, senor,\" she said.",
"type": "quotation"
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"(transitive, intransitive) To make or become blank"
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