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BLANCHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anemic looking from illness or emotion
Example:
a face white with rage
Synonyms:
ashen; blanched; bloodless; livid; white
Classified under:
Similar:
colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
Example:
etiolated celery
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)
Domain category:
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb blanch
Context examples:
The man was sitting up, blanched and ghastly, with returning reason in his eyes, and hands which rubbed nervously at the broad red band which still encircled his throat.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The stillness of early morning slumbered everywhere; the curtains were yet drawn over the servants' chamber windows; little birds were just twittering in the blossom-blanched orchard trees, whose boughs drooped like white garlands over the wall enclosing one side of the yard; the carriage horses stamped from time to time in their closed stables: all else was still.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
