Yet hist! faint eerie tones are sometimes heard — which blanch the cheek and palsy all the limbs — like to the moaning of departed souls!
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Blanch
//blɑːnt͡ʃ//
Synonyms for "blanch" (113 found)
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10 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 17 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λευκαίνω verb (to grow or become white)
- λευκαίνω verb (to make white)
Bulgarian
3 entries- бланширам verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
- избелвам verb (to make white)
- побелявам verb (to grow or become white)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 焯 verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
Dutch
4 entries- blancheren verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
- bleken verb (to make white)
- verbleken verb (to grow or become white)
- witten verb (to make white)
Finnish
3 entries- kaltata verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
- kalveta verb (to grow or become white)
- valkaista verb (to make white)
French
4 entries- blanchir verb (to grow or become white)
- blanchir verb (to make white)
- blanchir verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
- monder verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
Galician
1 entries- aferventar verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
German
2 entries- blanchieren verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
- erbleichen verb (to grow or become white)
Hungarian
1 entries- blansíroz verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
Irish
2 entries- bánaigh verb (to grow or become white)
- bánaigh verb (to make white)
Norwegian
1 entries- blekne verb (to grow or become white)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- bleke verb (to make white)
- skålde verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بیاضلانمق verb (to grow or become white)
Polish
4 entries- blaknąć verb (to grow or become white)
- blanszować verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
- blednąć verb (to grow or become white)
- płowieć verb (to grow or become white)
Russian
4 entries- беле́ть verb (to grow or become white)
- бели́ть verb (to make white)
- бланширова́ть verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
- бледне́ть verb (to grow or become white)
Spanish
4 entries- amarillear verb (to grow or become white)
- armiñar verb (to make white)
- blanquear verb (to make white)
- blanquear verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
Swedish
3 entries- blanchera verb (to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water)
- bleka verb (to make white)
- blekna verb (to grow or become white)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
His cheek blanched with fear.
Source: wiktionary
The rose blanches in the sun.
Source: wiktionary
Nurse Cramer's face blanched and she turned to Dunbar desperately for aid.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.