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Blench
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What's The Definition Of Blench?
[v] turn pale, as if in fear
Synonyms | Synonyms for Blench: blanch | pale Related Terms | Find terms related to Blench: ache | agonize | ail | anguish | avoid | blanch | bleach | blink | boggle | cringe | decolor | decolorize | demur | dodge | draw back | duck | evade | fade | fall back | falter | feel pain | feel the pangs | fight shy of | flinch | funk | grimace | hang back | hang off | have a misery | have qualms | hesitate | hold off | hurt | jib | make bones about | pause | pound | pull back | quail | recoil | reel back | retreat | scruple | sheer off | shoot | shrink | shrink back | shy | shy at | sidestep | smart | squinch | start | start aside | start back | stick at | stickle | strain | suffer | swerve | thrill | throb | tingle | turn aside | twinge | twitch | waver | weasel | weasel out | white | wince | writhe See Also | color | colour | discolor | discolour Blench In Webster's Dictionary \Blench\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blenched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Blenching}.] [OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS.
blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon.
Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See
{Blink}, and cf. 3d {Blanch}.]
1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of
courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
Blench not at thy chosen lot. --Bryant.
This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never
blenched from its fulfillment. --Jeffrey.
2. To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.]
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
--Shak.
\Blench\, v. t. 1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.] Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. --Sir T. More. 2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.] He now blenched what before he affirmed. --Evelyn. \Blench\, n. A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. --Shak. \Blench\, v. i. & t. [See 1st {Blanch}.] To grow or make pale. --Barbour. |
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