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To grow or become white
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His cheek blanched with fear.
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To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
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Age has blanched his hair.
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To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
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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
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To bleach by excluding the light, for example 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, for example by scalding
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to blanch almonds
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To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
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(tntransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
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To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
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