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Meaning of BLANCHED

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
  2. [adj]  (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"
 
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 Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, colorless, colourless, etiolate, etiolated, livid, white
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: aghast, appalled, ashen, ashy, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, bleached, bleached white, colorless, cowed, deadly pale, decolored, decolorized, doughy, drained, drained of color, eroded, faded, frozen, gray with fear, horrified, horror-struck, intimidated, lightened, livid, pale as death, pallid, paralyzed, petrified, scared stiff, scared to death, stunned, stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, undone, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, wan, washed-out, waxen, weather-battered, weather-beaten, weather-bitten, weather-eaten, weathered, weather-wasted, weatherworn, whitened
 

 

 

 

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