blanched

To grow or become white

“His cheek blanched with fear.”

To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach

“Age has blanched his hair.”

To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.

To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices

To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together

To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding

“to blanch almonds”

To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)

(tntransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;

To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

To cause to turn aside or back.

“to blanch a deer”

To use evasion.

Lacking complexion or color

Bleached