blanch

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To grow or become white. intransitive
    — His cheek blanched with fear.
  2. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
    — Ifs and ands to qualify words of treason; whereby every man might express his malice, and blanch his danger.
  3. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach. transitive
    — to blanch linen
  4. To cause to turn aside or back.
    — to blanch a deer
  5. To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water. transitive
  6. To use evasion.
    — Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.
  7. 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
  8. To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together. transitive
  9. To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding. transitive
    — to blanch almonds
  10. To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining) transitive
  11. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. intransitive
  12. To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten; figuratively,transitive
    — c. 1680, John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.

词形变化

blanches present,singular,third-person blanching participle,present blanched participle,past blanched past blanches present,singular,third-person blanching participle,present blanched participle,past blanched past

词汇关系

衍生词
blanchable blanched almond blancher blanch up emblanch preblanch
相关词
blanch holding parboil

词源

词源 1
From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).
Cognates
Cognate with blench (“to deceive, to trick”) through Proto-Indo-European, whence other etymology of blanch.
词源 2
Variant of blench, of same Proto-Indo-European origin.
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