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Blanched

adjective
1.
Anemic looking from illness or emotion.  Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, livid, white.  "The invalid's blanched cheeks" , "Tried to speak with bloodless lips" , "A face livid with shock" , "Lips...livid with the hue of death" , "Lips white with terror" , "A face white with rage"
2.
(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light.  Synonyms: etiolate, etiolated.



Blanch

verb
(past & past part. blanched; pres. part. blanching)
1.
Turn pale, as if in fear.  Synonyms: blench, pale.
2.
Cook (vegetables) briefly.  Synonym: parboil.






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"Blanched" Quotes from Famous Books



... their stems has deprived them of their sap; the ivory bill of the log-cock has stripped them of their bark; their leaves and twigs have long since disappeared; and only the trunks and greater branches remain, like blanched skeletons, with arms upstretched to heaven, as if mutely appealing for vengeance ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... the party spoke; Isabel and the other matron blanched in each other's faces; their husbands maintained a stolid resignation. When they stepped out of their trap into the waiting room at the top, "What I like about these little adventures," said Mr. Richard to Basil, abruptly, "is getting safely out of them. Good-morning, sir." ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... was striking. It was blanched to a dead whiteness; the lips compressed as if to keep within some tale of horror; the eyes distended and unnatural. It was ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell

... a saltspoonful of thyme. Let the whole boil gently for four or five hours, till the barley is quite soft and eatable. Thicken the soup very slightly with a little white roux, season it with pepper and salt. Before serving the soup, add a tablespoonful of chopped blanched parsley. ...
— Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery - A Manual Of Cheap And Wholesome Diet • A. G. Payne

... cannon of a hostile fleet are thundering at your ports; when your lumbering craft are flying before the rapacious grasp of quick-heeled cruisers, and fiery bombs are hissing through the pure air, bursting in your marble palaces and blasting your stores of wealth to dust, then you will turn with blanched faces to the sea, and wonder why you have so long forgotten the noble hearts and stalwart arms that once were thrown ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise


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