blanch

C2+ Topic:Cooking & Baking

US /blæntʃ/ UK /blɑːntʃ/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

verb
to turn pale, or to whiten food by briefly scalding it

Blanch the almonds to loosen their skins before peeling.

Verb forms

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Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 verb · to turn pale, or to whiten... whiten pale bleach fade scald parboil

Opposites

darken blacken redden flush

Word family

Derived forms blancherblanching

Related forms blank blanket

Etymology

From Old French blanchir ('to make white'), from blanc ('white'), of Germanic origin (Frankish *blank 'shining, white').

blanchir Old French *blank frk

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Topics

Cooking & Baking Actions & Processes

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# blanch

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** verb
**IPA (US):** /blæntʃ/
**IPA (UK):** /blɑːntʃ/

## Meanings
1. to turn pale, or to whiten food by briefly scalding it

## Examples
- Blanch the almonds to loosen their skins before peeling.

## Synonyms
- whiten
- pale
- bleach
- fade
- scald
- parboil

## Antonyms
- darken
- blacken
- redden
- flush

## Derived Forms
- blancher
- blanching

## Related Forms
- blank
- blanket

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: blanchir
- Root: *blank

## Etymology
From Old French blanchir ('to make white'), from blanc ('white'), of Germanic origin (Frankish *blank 'shining, white').

## AI Etymology
Blanch comes from Old French blanchir ('to make white'), from blanc ('white'), of Germanic origin (Frankish *blank 'shining, white'). The historical trail runs through blanchir in Old French and *blank in frk. Used as a verb, blanch now means "turn pale, or to whiten food by briefly scalding it", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in derived forms such as blancher and blanching and related forms such as blank and blanket. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

## Topics
- Cooking & Baking
- Actions & Processes

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