blanchverb
uk/blɑːntʃ/us/blæntʃ/blanch verb (PALE)
[ I ] to turn pale, for example because you are shocked:
While most people would blanch at the prospect of so much work, Daniels seems to enjoy it.
[ T ] to make a plant pale by covering it up so that the light does not reach it as it grows
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The skin, & skin colour
- beauty spot
- coloring
- cutaneous
- dermatome
- dermis
- drain
- epidermis
- follicle
- goosebumps
- half-caste
- ink
- jaundiced
- pale
- pallid
- sallow
- skin graft
- swarthy
- wan
- waxen
- wrinkled
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Gardening - general words
blanch verb (BOIL)
[ T ] to put vegetables or similar foods into boiling water for a few minutes to make them white, remove the skins, get rid of strong flavours, or prepare them for freezing:
blanched almonds
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Preparing food using heat
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- batch-bake
- boil sth up
- boiled
- curry
- flambé
- flash-fry
- fried
- frizzled
- fry
- microwave
- precook
- preheat
- render
- render sth down
- rendering
- sauté
- shallow-fry
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