Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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blanch

/blɑːnt͡ʃ/ verb, proper noun

Forms blanches blanching blanched

  1. verb (intransitive) To grow or become white. “His cheek blanched with fear.”
  2. verb (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach. “to blanch linen”
  3. verb (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
  4. verb (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
  5. verb (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
  6. verb (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding. “to blanch almonds”
  7. verb (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
  8. verb (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  9. verb To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  10. verb To cause to turn aside or back.
  11. verb To use evasion.
  12. proper noun A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Blanche.

Synonyms

palliate pale blench parboil

Etymology

From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).
Cognate with blench (“to deceive, to trick”) through Proto-Indo-European, whence other etymology of blanch.

Variant of blench, of same Proto-Indo-European origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
  2. verb To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
  3. verb To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. [Bones] blanching on the grass. Tennyson.
  4. verb To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. blanchen, blaunchen, F. blanchir, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a.]

Etymology [See Blench.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “blanch”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details