what does blanched mean?
BLANCHED as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion
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- a face turned ashen
- the invalid’’s blanched cheeks
- tried to speak with bloodless lips
- a face livid with shock
- lips…livid with the hue of death- Mary W. Shelley
- lips white with terror
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- Meaning
- (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
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