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▸ verb: (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
▸ verb: (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
▸ verb: (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
▸ verb: (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
▸ verb: To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
▸ verb: To cause to turn aside or back.
▸ verb: To use evasion.
▸ noun: A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Blanche.
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