Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blanch
Participle: blanched
Gerund: blanching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blanch |
| you | blanch |
| he;she;it | blanches |
| we | blanch |
| you | blanch |
| they | blanch |
Perfect
| I | have blanched |
| you | have blanched |
| he;she;it | has blanched |
| we | have blanched |
| you | have blanched |
| they | have blanched |
Past
| I | blanched |
| you | blanched |
| he;she;it | blanched |
| we | blanched |
| you | blanched |
| they | blanched |
Pluperfect
| I | had blanched |
| you | had blanched |
| he;she;it | had blanched |
| we | had blanched |
| you | had blanched |
| they | had blanched |
Future
| I | will blanch |
| you | will blanch |
| he;she;it | will blanch |
| we | will blanch |
| you | will blanch |
| they | will blanch |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blanched |
| you | will have blanched |
| he;she;it | will have blanched |
| we | will have blanched |
| you | will have blanched |
| they | will have blanched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blanch |
| you | blanch |
| he;she;it | blanch |
| we | blanch |
| you | blanch |
| they | blanch |
Perfect
| I | have blanched |
| you | have blanched |
| he;she;it | have blanched |
| we | have blanched |
| you | have blanched |
| they | have blanched |
Imperfect
| I | blanched |
| you | blanched |
| he;she;it | blanched |
| we | blanched |
| you | blanched |
| they | blanched |
Pluperfect
| I | had blanched |
| you | had blanched |
| he;she;it | had blanched |
| we | had blanched |
| you | had blanched |
| they | had blanched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blanch |
| you | would blanch |
| he;she;it | would blanch |
| we | would blanch |
| you | would blanch |
| they | would blanch |
Perfect
| I | would have blanched |
| you | would have blanched |
| he;she;it | would have blanched |
| we | would have blanched |
| you | would have blanched |
| they | would have blanched |
Imperative
| you | blanch |
| we | Let's blanch |
| you | blanch |
Verbs conjugated like 'blanch'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blanch'
blanco,
blench,
branch,
lanch,
planch,
bach,
balance,
batch,
beach,
bench,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1398, from O.Fr.
blanchir "to whiten," from
blanc "white" (see blank). Originally "to remove the hull of (almonds, etc.) by soaking." Intrans. sense of "to turn white" is from 1768.
2. From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with blench (“to deceive, to trick”) through Proto-Indo-European, whence other etymology of blanch. See: Old French '
blanchir'.
Sample Sentences
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His cheek blanched with fear.
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The rose blanches in the sun.
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Nurse Cramer's face blanched and she turned to Dunbar desperately for aid. [1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:]
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"Where is the target?"
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"Bearing zero-four-five, Comrade. Bearing is constant," the michman replied, "closing rapidly."
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Tupolev blanched. "Left full rudder, all ahead flank!" [1984, Tom Clancy, “The Seventeenth Day: Sunday, 19 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 456:]
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to blanch linen
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Age has blanched his hair.
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to blanch almonds
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c. 1680, John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture
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Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.