BLANCHED as ADJECTIVE

  1. Meaning
    • ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • 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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  2. Meaning
    • (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • etiolated celery
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