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1. Anaemic looking from illness or emotion
   "the invalid's blanched cheeks"
   - ashen, bloodless, livid, white
    
2. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
   - etiolate, etiolated

1. Turn pale, as if in fear
   - pale, blench [dialect]
    
2. Cook (vegetables) briefly
   - parboil

See also: colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: color [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], cook, discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Blanch Blanch, North Carolina