Verb
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| blanch -
To grow or become white.
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To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
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To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
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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.
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To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
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To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding.
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To give a white luster to.
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To cover sheet iron with a coating of tin.
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| blanch -
To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
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To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
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| blanch -
To cause to turn aside or back.
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To use evasion.
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