(turn pale, as if in fear)
(cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them")
(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")
((especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery")
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