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blanched   (TTS Sound)

The verb blanch has 2 senses

• pale, blanch, blench -- (turn pale, as if in fear)


• blanch, parboil -- (cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them")

The adj blanched has 2 senses

• ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white -- (anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage")


• etiolate, etiolated, blanched -- ((especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery")