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adjective

Definition of blanchednext
as in pallid
lacking a healthy skin color looking blanched and feeble after a long illness

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blanched

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verb

past tense of blanch
as in bleached
to make white or whiter by removing color a good washing with bleach should blanch these yellowed sheets

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  1. pallid
  2. pale
  3. brightened
Adjective
  • The company, which relies heavily on sales in mainland China where Arc’teryx and Salomon are especially popular, suffered from fears of weak consumer demand given the pallid state of the Chinese economy.
    Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Yet everything about this pallid stunt comedy, from the increasingly gross setpieces (at one point, Barrymore’s Nancy pukes directly into her husband’s mouth) to the wasting of normally great character actors in minor roles (Harvey Fierstein!
    Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
Definition of pallid
Adjective
  • That’s true even though junior colleges are not NCAA member institutions, and their football program’s quality of play and their players’ NIL opportunities often pale in comparison to D-1.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Dec. 2024
  • However, according to a study published this September in the British Journal of Social Psychology, these traits pale in comparison to one other—kindness.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of pale
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  • Hotter and brighter than the sun The OGLE data revealed several objects in the LMC and SMC that brightened by between 10 and 20 times over the course of a few months.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Between 2018 and 2020, for instance, the telescope spotted a slight color change in Saturn’s central band, which brightened by around 5 to 10 percent.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of brightened
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