Blanched

Definitions: Blanched

Blanched

Adjective

1. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage".

2. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery".

Date "blanched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Blanched

Synonyms: ashen (adj), bloodless (adj), etiolate (adj), etiolated (adj), livid (adj), white (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Blanched

English words defined with "blanched": ashen ♦ bloodless ♦ Cichorium endivia ♦ endive, Etiolation ♦ Finochio, Fleeten face ♦ livid ♦ size ♦ white, witloof. (references)

Specialty definitions using "blanched": ALMOND BLANCHER, HAND, ALMOND-BLANCHER OPERATOR, ALMOND-PASTE MIXER ♦ blanched chips, blanching-machine operator ♦ marzipan maker ♦ PEANUT BLANCHER ♦ VISMIA FERRUGINEA. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Carte Blanched (1969)
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Domain	Title
Books	Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Blanched Solider (reference) Towards the Blanched Alphabets (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Mrs. Frank Rogers looking at a tray of blanched beans on the dryer on top of a range. The beans will dehydrate in the dryer.Credit: Library of Congress.		"The Ladies Friend" dryer, full of blanched pencil pod beans, on top of a coal and wood range.Credit: Library of Congress.
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	Afraid; alarmed; apprehensive; blanched; dismayed; distressed; frightened; horrified; intimidated; nervous; panic-stricken; petrified; run scared; scared; scared stiff; shocked; spooked; startled; stunned; suspicious; terrified; terror-stricken; timid; ti.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The whiteness of the twilight sky blanched the earth, and the lane made a livid line between two rows of dusky bushes.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that becomes necessary the earth itself will be destroyed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Blanched" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 46.30% of the time. "Blanched" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	46.3%	25	69,787
Lexical Verb (past tense)	40.74%	22	74,468
Lexical Verb (past participle)	12.96%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	54	N/A

Expressions using "blanched": blanched chips ♦ blanched etiolate etiolated whitened. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "blanched": moon-blanched.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "blanched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		变白 (Blanching). (various references)

Danish		blegselleri (blanched celery), blancherede pommes frites (blanched chips), bladselleri (blanched celery), skoldet eller blancheret frugt (scalded or blanched fruit). (various references)

Dutch		bleekselderij (blanched celery), voorgebakken frites (blanched chips), met stoom kortstondig behandeld of met heet water geblancheerde vrucht (scalded or blanched fruit). (various references)

French		patates frites précuites et surgelées (blanched chips), fruit échaudé ou blanchi (scalded or blanched fruit), céléri en branches (blanched celery), céléri � côtes (blanched celery), amande pilée (blanched almond), amande mondée (blanched almond). (various references)

German		erblich (hereditarily, hereditary, heritable, inheritable), erbleichte, bleichte (bleached). (various references)

Greek		σέλινο σε κλάδους (blanched celery), σέλινο σε δέσμες (blanched celery), ζεματισμένος ή λευκασμένος καρπός (scalded or blanched fruit), αμύγδαλο ξεφλουδισμένο (blanched almond), αμυγδαλόψιχα (blanched almond). (various references)

Italian		sedano da erbucce (blanched celery), sedano a coste (blanched celery), patatine fritte pelate (blanched chips), frutta scottata o imbianchita (scalded or blanched fruit). (various references)

Korean		희게하�". (various references)

Pig Latin		anchedblay

Portuguese		fruto escaldado (scalded or blanched fruit), aipo em rama (blanched celery), aipo de talo (blanched celery). (various references)

Spanish		fruta escalonada o blanqueada (scalded or blanched fruit), apio en ramas (blanched celery). (various references)

Turkish		kalaylı (containing tin, pewter, stannous, tinned). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Blanched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bankchek, Bianchhi, Blache, blanchaed, Blanchet, Blanchot, blancoed, Blankney, Blondchen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-h-l-n"
	-2 letters: bached, blanch, bleach, blench, cabled, candle, handle, lanced.
	-3 letters: ached, acned, baled, baned, beach, belch, bench, blade, bland, blend, cable, caned, chela, clade, clean, dance, decal, eland, haled, hance, laced, laden, lance, leach, naled.
	-4 letters: abed, able, aced, ache, acne, alec, bach, bade, bald, bale, band, bane, bead, bean, bend, blae, blah, bled.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-h-l-n"
	+1 letter: benchland.
	+2 letters: benchlands, unbleached.
	+3 letters: blackhander.
	+4 letters: backhandedly, blackhanders, childbearing.
	+5 letters: brainchildren, childbearings, multibranched, nondetachable.
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