blanch
b lanch
- v turn pale, as if in fear
- v cook (vegetables) briefly
- Then on guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys they demonstrated that the extract neutralized diphtheria toxin and infantile paralysis virus, and caused scarlet fever rashes to blanch.
- Words like "penis" and "breasts" and "pubic hair" would enter the public record repeatedly in so somber and untitillating a fashion that no one in the hearing room would blanch .
- Today, at respectable dinner tables, words are casually uttered that would make Victorians blush, blanch or burst.