BLANCH
/blรฆntส/
13
Scrabble
16
WWF
B(3) L(1) A(1) N(1) C(3) H(4)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/blรฆntส/
verb
- To grow or become white“His cheek blanched with fear.”
- To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach“Age has blanched his hair.”
- To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- 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
- To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
Source: Wiktionary
