English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of blanch

blanch

/verb/ रंग उड़ जाना; रंग‍ निकाल कर, छील कर, या प्रकाश से वंचित कर के सफ़ेद करना; भय या शीत आदि से पीला पड़न

Synonym lime; bleach;

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English Dictionary:

1. Blanch

[a.]

- To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
- To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
- To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
- To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
- To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
- To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

2. Blanch

[n.]

- Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

3. Blanch

[v. i.]

- To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
- To use evasion.

4. Blanch

[v. t.]

- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.