blenched
simple past tense and past participle of blench
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
9 June 2025
(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
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