Definitions for Blanch

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Blanch blanch

Spelling: [blanch, blahnch]

IPA: /blæntʃ, blɑntʃ/

Blanch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in Blanch (abchln).

Definitions for Blanch

verb (used with object)

1. to whiten by removing color; bleach:
2. Cookery. to scald briefly and then drain, as peaches or almonds to facilitate removal of skins, or as rice or macaroni to separate the grains or strands. to scald or parboil (meat or vegetables) so as to whiten, remove the odor, prepare for cooking by other means, etc.
3. Horticulture. (of the stems or leaves of plants, as celery or lettuce) to whiten or prevent from becoming green by excluding light.
4. Metallurgy. to give a white luster to (metals), as by means of acids. to coat (sheet metal) with tin.
5. to make pale, as with sickness or fear:
6. to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.

verb (used without object)

1. to become white; turn pale:

Origin of Blanch

1300-50; Middle English bla(u)nchen Anglo-French, Middle French blanchir to whiten, derivative of blanc, blanche white; see blank

Examples for Blanch

His more polemical books, such as Black Mass and Straw Dogs, often posit a worldview bleak enough to make Beckett blanch.

blanch the spinach and parsley in boiling salted water until completely tender and then cool in ice water.

First blanch them by putting them into cold water and bringing it to the boil.

blanch squash for about one minute, drain and cool with cold water.

Most Republicans blanch instinctively at the political rhetoric of “the new Cleveland.”

blanch them in boiling salted water, then drain and fry them in butter.

Even some progressives might blanch at the idea that we ourselves might run the banks.

Or you may blanch a quart of ground-nuts and put them in instead of the almonds.

blanch them by putting them in cold water and bringing them to the boil.

Take off the outside leaves of a lettuce, blanch and drain them well.