blanched

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I blanched at that comment too, and don't think of $20k as measly either.

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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"

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adjective

(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"

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adjective

See also: ashen, bloodless, livid, white

adjective

(especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"

Example sentences

I blanched at that comment too, and don't think of $20k as measly either.

In the bottom of the jar of honey there remained the blanched bones of an infant child," he said.

What would be wrong with steamed/blanched broccoli smothered in Velveeta?

Upvoted... for reminding me what it was like the time we blanched raw almonds and had to skin them.

Oh yeah, adding a fried egg to blanched spinach and quinoa is also very filling.

Served on it's own, with maybe a bit of cha siu drippings and trimmed blanched vegetables.

I blanched many potatoes as a young lad working in a restaurant.

From refined seed oils to heavily blanched and processed modern varieties of wheat.

I can only imagine someone thinking those all look similar if they had subconsciously blanched at the batshit biodiversity on display and simply lumped them all in the "batshit" category.

And when you read the ingredients on its packaging, you begin to understand why, as sliced bread is subject to the techniques of processed foods such as the addition of preservatives, antioxidants, stabilizers, anti-caking agents, or packaging gases, in addition to that bread being bleached, blanched, stripped of nutrients and with added sugar to make it taste better and because high-fructose corn syrup is so cheap, so why not.