Pallid vs Blanch - What's the difference?
pallid | blanch |
Appearing weak, pale or wan.
To grow or become white
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
(cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
To whiten, as 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, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
(figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
* Tillotson
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
* Francis Bacon
* Reliq. Wot
To cause to turn aside or back.
To use evasion.
* Francis Bacon
As an adjective pallid
is appearing weak, pale or wan.As a proper noun blanch is
, a less common spelling of blanche.pallid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The patient left the hospital but was very pallid .
Synonyms
* ashen * pale * pasty * ghastlyDerived terms
* pallidity * pallidly * pallidness * pallid bat * pallid cuckoo * pallid harrier * pallid sturgeonblanch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blanchirVerb
(es)- his cheek blanched with fear
- the rose blanches in the sun
- to blanch linen
- age has blanched his hair
- to blanch almonds
- Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
Etymology 2
Variant of blenchVerb
(es)- Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.
- I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
- to blanch a deer
- Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch .