blench

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to flinch
to blanch
{v} to shrink, start back, hinder
To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail
{f} shrink, recoil, cower, falter
To draw back from; to deny from fear
A looking aside or askance
To fly off; to turn aside
To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; also, to obstruct; to hinder
turn pale, as if in fear
To grow or make pale
Variant of blanch
blench holding
See Blanch holding
Blanch
A female given name, a less common spelling of Blanche

That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch, / Is near to England: look upon the years / Of Lewis the Dauphin and the lovely maid. / If lusty love should go in quest of beauty, / Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?.

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To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
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To use evasion
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To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer
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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
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To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water
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{v} to whiten, skin almonds, evade
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To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin
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cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them
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To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.)
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Dip in and out of boiling water to loosen skin or to prepare for freezing
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To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair
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To cook an item partially and very briefly in boiling water or in hot fat Usually a preparation technique, as to loosen peel from vegetables, fruits and nuts or to prepare foods for freezing or remove undesirable flavors
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to plunge food (usually vegetables and fruits) into boiling water briefly, then into cold water to stop the cooking
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If you blanch, you suddenly become very pale. His face blanched as he looked at Sharpe's blood-drenched uniform She felt herself blanch at the unpleasant memories
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To plunge food (usually vegetables and fruits) into boiling water briefly, then into cold water to stop the cooking process Blanching is used to firm the flesh, to loosen skins (as with peaches and tomatoes) and to heighten and set color and flavor (as with vegetables before freezing)
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To immerse food briefly in boiling water, either to help loosen the skin or to cook briefly to set color and flavor
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To immerse food in boiling water for a short time
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To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed
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to put food, particularly fruit or vegetables, into boiling water for short periods to tenderise them or make them easier to peel
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To pour boiling water over a food or to immerse briefly in boiling water, then drain and rinse with cold water May be done to loosen skin (as for almonds), to remove or set color, or to stop enzymatic action (as for canning or freezing)
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To place item in boiling water in order to loosen the skin so that it can be removed
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To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
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To cook for a very short time in boiling water, either to loosen the skin from some food to be peeled, or as a step in preparing foods for freezing
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To preheat in boiling water or steam from one to five minutes, followed by draining and rinsing in cold water Uses: (1) To remove skins from some fruits, vegetables, and nuts (2) To inactivate enzymes and shrink food for canning, freezing, and drying
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To plunge food briefly into boiling water, then into cold water to stop the cooking process This process is performed to firm the flesh, loosen skins, and to heighten and set the color and flavor of foods
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To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun
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To cook briefly in boiling water to seal in flavor; usually used for vegetables or fruit, to prepare for canning and to ease skin removal
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Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals
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To give a white luster to silver, before stamping, in the process of coining
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To take the color out of and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair
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To boil fruits or vegetables to prepare for canning, drying, freezing or to remove skins
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{f} bleach; turn pale; whiten (of plants); remove almond skins by boiling; cook vegetables briefly; scald
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To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds
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If you say that someone blanches at something, you mean that they find it unpleasant and do not want to be involved with it. Everything he had said had been a mistake. He blanched at his miscalculations
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To partially cook vegetables by parboiling
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To drop food into boiling water for a brief period of time to preserve color and texture or to loosen skins for peeling
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Blanching is a process whereby the food is briefly plunged in boiling water for a moment, then immediately transferred to ice water to stop the cooking process It is a technique commonly used with Chinese vegetables prior to stir-frying The goal is to bring out the color and flavor of the vegetable without overcooking
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Fig
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To plunge seafood into boiling water for a brief period of time to bring out the color and flavor, then submerge the seafood into a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking process
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If you blanch vegetables, fruit, or nuts, you put them into boiling water for a short time, usually in order to remove their skins, or to prepare them for freezing. Skin the peaches by blanching them
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cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them"
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turn pale, as if in fear
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From the Old French word blanchir, to whiten As a gardening term, it is used to describe a process of excluding light so as to make the plant material lighter in color and more tender For example, this is commonly done with endive
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A method used to prepare food for freezing The food is submerged in hot water for a brief period of time before being placed in packages and frozen
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To make white by removing the skin of as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds
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To heat for a short period of time in boiling water or steam Blanching may mean pouring boiling water over food to loosen and remove the outer covering such as skin from peaches or tomatoes or the brown husk from almonds Foods can also be blanched by placing them in a large amount of water and boiling for given number of minutes They are then drained and plunged into ice water to crisp and stop the cooking action This is done to inactivate enzymes in food for canning, freezing and drying
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To partially cook fruits, vegetables, or nuts in boiling water or steam to prepare for canning or freezing
blenched
past of blench
blenches
third-person singular of blench
blenching
present participle of blench
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    Etymologie

    [ 'blench ] (intransitive verb.) 13th century. From Old English blencan (“to deceive, cheat”). Akin to Old Norse blekkja (“to deceive, impose upon”). in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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