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Blench is a related term of recoil.


As verbs the difference between blench and recoil

is that blench is to shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off or blench can be (obsolete) to blanch while recoil is .

As nouns the difference between blench and recoil

is that blench is a deceit; a trick while recoil is a starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.

blench

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) blenchen, from (etyl)

Verb

(es)
  • To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
  • * Bryant
    • Blench not at thy chosen lot.
  • * Jeffrey
    • This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment.
  • * 1998', Andrew Hurley (translator), , "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrnth", ' Collected Fictions , Penguin Putnam, p.255
    • "This," said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, "is my ancestral land."
  • (of the eye) To quail.
  • To deceive; cheat.
  • To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
  • * 2012 , Jan 13, Polly Toynbee, Welfare cuts: Cameron's problem is that people are nicer than he thinks , The Guardian
    • Yesterday the government proclaimed no turning back, but the lords representing the likes of the disability charity Scope or Macmillan Cancer Support should make them blench .
  • To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  • To fly off; to turn aside.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.

    Noun

    (blenches)
  • A deceit; a trick.
  • * c. 1210 , MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246.
    • Feir weder turnedh ofte into reine; / An wunderliche hit makedh his blench .
  • A sidelong glance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • These blenches gave my heart another youth.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To blanch.
  • * 1934 , Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer , Harper Perennial (2005), p.283
    • The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.
    Related terms
    * unblenching

    References

    recoil

    English

    (wikipedia recoil)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
    • the recoil of nature, or of the blood
  • The state or condition of having recoiled.
  • * F. W. Robertson
    • The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
  • (firearms) The amount of energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.

    • Verb

  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
    • that rude rout
  • (obsolete) To retire, withdraw.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
    • Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle .
  • * Milton
    • Evil on itself shall back recoil .
  • * De Quincey
    • The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
  • To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
    • He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
    (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * recoil on

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