To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.

To use evasion.

To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to
whitewash; to palliate.

To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the
process of coining.).

To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as,
to blanch almonds.

To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves
of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling
water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain
the juices.

To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with
fear; the rose blanches in the sun.