blanched
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blanch
- (intransitive) To grow or become white.
- (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- (transitive) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- (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.
- (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
- (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
- (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- (figuratively, transitive) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
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