Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To draw back or shy away, as from fear; flinch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become pale; blanch.
- To make white; blanch.
- Upon or based upon the payment of a nominal or trifling yearly duty: applied to a sort of tenure of land: as, the estate is held blench of the crown. See
blanch-holding . - To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
- To quail: said of the eye.
- To deceive; cheat.
- To draw back from; shirk; avoid; elude; deny from fear.
- To hinder or obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- noun A deceit; a trick.
- noun A sidelong glance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A looking aside or askance.
- transitive verb obsolete To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
- transitive verb obsolete To draw back from; to deny from fear.
- intransitive verb To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
- intransitive verb obsolete To fly off; to turn aside.
- verb To grow or make pale.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
shrink ; start back;give way ;flinch ; turn aside or fly off. - verb intransitive (of the eye) To
quail . - verb transitive To
deceive ;cheat . - verb transitive To draw back from; shrink;
avoid ;elude ;deny , as from fear. - verb transitive To
hinder ;obstruct ;disconcert ;foil . - noun A
deceit ; atrick . - noun A
sideling glance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb turn pale, as if in fear
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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( "The word 'blench' came from Rehnquist," Bradley says.
Rehnquist the Great? 2005
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( "The word 'blench' came from Rehnquist," Bradley says.
Rehnquist the Great? 2005
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( "The word 'blench' came from Rehnquist," Bradley says.
Rehnquist the Great? 2005
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For the true face of catwalk evil, look instead to the girl models, some so emaciated they made Samantha Cameron blench in shock.
If tokenism is what it takes to get on, so be it | Barbara Ellen 2011
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Mandelson: though twice disgraced, we should not blench at using him as a weapon with which to help the EU's demise
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I blench to say this of a fellow Burger but NWB is . . . no . . . gentleman.
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How my words, my very presence and smell of me, of my words, must make you furiously blench!
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She heard Colum and Dougal talking about me; that's what made her blench-she'd think Colum had heard she'd been to me for the ill-wish.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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The movie is even more violent than its predecessors, the language reaches levels of obscenity that would make David Mamet blench and uses the real names of everyone concerned.
Bonded by Blood 2010
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Mandelson: though twice disgraced, we should not blench at using him as a weapon with which to help the EU's demise
Archive 2008-06-29 2008
yarb commented on the word blench
The mouth of the river was barred by a rosy, drowsy sunrise; the sky had lost its stars, and had blenched, and was being flooded by a brave daylight blue...
- Rebecca West, The Judge
July 17, 2009