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1. (intransitive) To grow or become white.
2. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
3. (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
4. To cause to turn aside or back.
5. (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
6. To use evasion.
7. (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.
8. (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
9. (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
10. (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
11. (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
12. (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;