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bánaigh — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blanch verb To grow or become white.
  • depopulate verb To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
  • empty adj Containing nothing; not filled or occupied.
  • whiten verb (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

Senses

bánaigh is used for these senses in English:

  • depopulate (transitive) To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
  • empty (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
  • lay waste (transitive) To completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
  • whiten (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

blanch — full definition

  1. verb To grow or become white.
  2. verb To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
  3. verb To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
  4. verb 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.

depopulate — full definition

  1. verb To reduce the population of a region by disease, war, forced relocation etc.
  2. verb To remove the components from a circuit board.
  3. verb To become depopulated, to lose its population.

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