Blanch

Quick meaning: Blanch is a verb meaning (intransitive) To grow or become white.

Meaning

(intransitive) To grow or become white.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
2. (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
3. (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
4. (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
5. (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
6. (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
7. (transitive) 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.

Example Sentences

to blanch linen

to blanch almonds

Age has blanched his hair.

His cheek blanched with fear.

Word Forms

• blanches
• blanching
• blanched

Synonyms for blanch

Depending on context, synonyms include palliate, blench, pale, parboil.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include parboil, pale, blench, blank, emblanch, whiten.

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