1[transitiveT]DFC to put vegetables, fruit, or nuts into boiling water for a short time 用沸水烫,焯〔蔬菜、水果或坚果〕
Blanch the peaches and remove the skins.
把桃子用沸水烫一烫后去皮。
2[intransitiveI] literaryCOLOUR/COLOR to become pale because you are frightened or shocked 〔因害怕或震惊而〕变得(脸色)苍白
Patrick visibly blanched.
帕特里克的脸色明显地变得苍白。
Examples from the Corpus
blanch• Then, obsessively, she went back to blanching her face.• Chopzest and blanch in boiling water to cover for 5 minutes.• Four or five weeks more, and that greater snow would blanch the hedgerows.• A gunboomed; then another, blanching the sky to the south.• Blanch the spinach for 30 seconds.