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Related topics: Cookingblanch /blɑːntʃ $ blæntʃ/ verb 1 [transitive]DFC to put vegetables, fruit, or nuts into boiling water for a short time 用沸水烫，焯〔蔬菜、水果或坚果〕 Blanch the peaches and remove the skins. 把桃子用沸水烫一烫后去皮。2 [intransitive] literaryCOLOUR/COLOR to become pale because you are frightened or shocked 〔因害怕或震惊而〕变得（脸色）苍白 Patrick visibly blanched. 帕特里克的脸色明显地变得苍白。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusblanch• Then, obsessively, she went back to blanching her face.• Chop zest and blanch in boiling water to cover for 5 minutes.• Four or five weeks more, and that greater snow would blanch the hedgerows.• A gun boomed; then another, blanching the sky to the south.• Blanch the spinach for 30 seconds.Origin blanch (1300-1400) Old French blanchir, from blanc “white”blanch verbChinese boiling fruit, nuts or into to Corpus for vegetables, water put |