Usually means: Submerge in boiling water briefly.
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  1. blanch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blanch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blanch: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blanch: Vocabulary.com
  5. Blanch, blanch: Wordnik
  6. blanch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Blanch, blanch: Wiktionary
  8. blanch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. blanch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. blanch: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Blanch, blanch: Dictionary.com
  12. blanch (1), blanch (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. blanch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Blanch (medical), Blanch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Blanch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. blanch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. blanch: Rhymezone
  18. Blanch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. blanch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. blanch: Free Dictionary
  21. blanch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. blanch: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blanch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. blanch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. blanch: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blanch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See blanched as well.)

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verb:  (intransitive) To grow or become white.
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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