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BLENCH
pale, blanch, blench
(verb) turn pale, as if in fear
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
blench (third-person singular simple present blenches, present participle blenching, simple past and past participle blenched)
(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
(intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
(transitive) To deceive; cheat.
(transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
(transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
Noun
blench (plural blenches)
A deceit; a trick.
A sidelong glance.
Etymology 2
Verb
blench (third-person singular simple present blenches, present participle blenching, simple past and past participle blenched)
(obsolete) To blanch.
Source: Wiktionary
Blench, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching.] Etym: [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.
Definition: A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.
Blench, v. i. & t. Etym: [See 1st Blanch.]
Definition: To grow or make pale. Barbour.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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