blanch vs blench
Definitions
verb
- turn pale, as if in fear
- cook (vegetables) briefly
Examples
According to him, ‘In Europe the farmers throw dirt around the asparagus in order to blanch it.’
The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass.
The general manager gave his assistant carte blanche in this matter.
Definitions
verb
- turn pale, as if in fear
Examples
Evandale; “he is tottering on the verge between time and eternity, a situation more appalling than the most hideous certainty; yet his is the only cheek unblenched, the only eye that is calm, the only heart that keeps its usual time, the only nerves that are not quivering.
She blenches at the very thought of changing a baby's dirty nappy.
He kept passing worse and worse laws to see if Jack Straw on the opposite bench would blench at each ever more extreme law and order measure.
