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blanched

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verb

past tense of blanch

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for blanched
Adjective
  • Morfydd Clark, pallid at first, has some emotive scenes at the wedding when Ophelia rails at Hamlet for turning away from her.
    Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
    Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Diesel also showed denim bleached from the inside out, creating an x-ray effect on the garment.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The photo was too sun-bleached to discern much else, but there was an e-mail address and a WhatsApp number to contact if anyone found her.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Ratty pale jeans, band T-shirt.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Still, the Ottoman-style architecture and the pale pink of a nearby Orthodox church distinguish ski towns and resorts like Brezovica and Jahorina.
    Naomi Tomky, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That hope began to wither after a loss to the Vikings, and faded further when Saleh was fired when the team returned to New Jersey — a year to the day from Wednesday’s practice.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • And as the superpowers moved on from Cold War battlefields, the ideological paradigms that had once made Central American revolutions feel globally significant faded with them.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Since its discovery, the comet has brightened in magnitude and is becoming more and more visible.
    Harry Bennett, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Kindling his broad grin and clean laughter brightened even the most discouraging day.
    Jim Moore, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Blanched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blanched. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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