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blanch

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blanch \Blanch\, v. i. To use evasion. [Obs.] Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch. --Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to start back, turn aside," 1570s, variant of blench . Related: Blanched ; blanching .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
When skin is blanched , it takes on a whitish appearance as blood flow to the region is prevented. This occurs during and is the basis of the physiologic test known as diascopy . Blanching of the fingers is also one of the most clinically evident signs ...

Usage examples of blanch.

But why was Edwards, chief of obstetrics and gynecology, with them, and what was he so intent on telling Hamlin that could make the neurosurgeon blanch?

Les coudes arrondis, il decoupait avec facilite les chairs blanches ou noires, servait lui-meme largement ses petits, sa femme et son convive, et disait, avec un rire affreux, des choses innocentes.

Has grown and grown, and with her mellow shade Has blanched my thornless thoughts to her own hue, And even now is budding into blossom, Which never shall bear fruit, but inward still Resorb its vital nectar, self-contained, And leave no living copies of its beauty To after ages.

For one awful instant they were suspended above disaster, the keel of the boat riding the force of the torrent like a reversed magnet, unloosed, unmoored, out of control, the sharp spray in their faces, Henry shouting out encouragement to the straining motors, grinning Jalong in the bow with a plastic bucket bailing like mad, the bouncing Copelands trying not to glance too often at one another with the blanched appeal of stricken airline passengers, the fragile longboat, as if responding to psychic entreaty, moved forward an inch, another inch, then, in one sweet dizzying lift, rose up and over the crest of the falls onto a slick moving sheet of unruffled stream, and they looked around at themselves and they laughed.

Les aigues blanches et grises, le cou bas, cherchaient leur vie dans les menus roseaux qui craquaient sous leur pied et sous leurs dents.

At the mere mention of the backbreaking labor, Kalliana blanched and looked over at Troy.

Behind it was the blanched immensity of the plain, of the lonely desert from which Domini and Androvsky had come to face this barbaric stir of life.

As Gryllus coolly watched, he blanched, and suddenly whirling, ran out of the room.

Leurs coiffes blanches, tantot relevees en coquille sur le haut de la tete, tantot pendantes sur les epaules, mettent dans les assemblees une grace tres douce, profonde et triste.

With a dead body, if we press on an early-livid area, it blanches for a moment but then recolors as gravity pulls the blood back.

His features bore no sign of that deep emotion which stops the beating of the heart and blanches the cheek.

When embarrassed she would blush to the roots of that lemon hair and when she was frightened she blanched to the point of transparency.

He was very tall, with hair the golden color of blanched witchgrass in late summer that fell down to below his waist in length.

A blanket of small golden flowers, thousands of them nodding in an evening breeze, spread out in a broad circumference, standing in stark contrast to the blanched witchgrass around them.

The other dignitaries stiffened, and the painfully young ensign beside Anderson blanched.