Crossword-Solution: BLANCH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blanch | a. | To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair. |
| Blanch | a. | To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. |
| Blanch | a. | To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds. |
| Blanch | a. | To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices. |
| Blanch | a. | To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.). |
| Blanch | a. | To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. |
| Blanch | a. | Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. |
| Blanch | v. i. | To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. |
| Blanch | v. t. | To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. |
| Blanch | v. t. | To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer. |
| Blanch | v. i. | To use evasion. |
| Blanch | n. | Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BLANCH (5)
Ada Lovelace (the daughter of Lord Byron who became the world's first programmer while cooperating with Charles Babbage on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s) would almost certainly blanch at the use to which her name has latterly been put; the kindest thing that has been said about it is that there is probably a good small language screaming to get out from inside its vast, {elephantine} bulk.
Fool! would you change the leopard's spots, Or blanch the Ethiopian's skin? What more could he have hoped to win, What better things have thought to gain, So shapen--so conceived in sin? No life is wholly void and vain, Just and unjust share sun and rain.
The sight of them nearly caused the old fellow to die of fright, for to see fifty armed men issue from the untenanted halls was well reckoned to blanch even a braver cheek.
When Tirant lo Blanc appears for the first time, asleep on his horse, and stumbles upon the hermit who explains at great length the order of chivalry, the entire section (which this present translation omits) is taken from Ramon Lull's Libre del Orde d'Cauayleria.(8) Tirant himself may be an amalgamation of several historical figures: Roger de Flor, Richard Beauchamp, Louis IX, Peter II of Aragon, Joan Hunyadi lo Blanch of Hungary, etc.
Helen said she was going to engage "The Heart of Maryland" company to protect her front yard, while Russell and I have engaged "The Girl I Left Behind Me" company with Blanch Walsh and the original cast.
Quotes with BLANCH (3)
... the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone...
Sevro." I lean forward. "Your eyes..." He leans in close. "Do you like 'em?""Bloodydamn. Did you get Carved?""By the best in the business. Do you like 'em?""They're bloodydamn marvelous. Fit you like a glove." He punches his hands together. "Glad you said that. Cuz they're yours." I blanch. "What?""They're yours.""My what?""Your eyes!""My eyes...""Do you want the eyes back?" Sevro asks, suddenly worried. "I can give them back.""No!" I say. "It's just I forgot how crazy you ar…
Thus unto winter’s chill embrace I turn Who once the summer’s sun did blithely bide ‘Neath solemn visage cold and fair and stern In her cool breast my hot heart to confide. Denied the warmth and wit of summer’s sun Or springtime’s strength, and bright, melodious song I dreamed not to complete what I’d begun Nor dared to haste the laggard hours along. But now with spring and summer sun at rest Laid bare before bright winter’s pale charms I would for love of her lay down my que…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).