Blenched vs Blanched - What's the difference?
blenched | blanched |
(blench)
To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
* Bryant
* Jeffrey
* 1998', Andrew Hurley (translator), , "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrnth", ' Collected Fictions , Penguin Putnam, p.255
(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
To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
To fly off; to turn aside.
* Shakespeare
A deceit; a trick.
* c. 1210 , MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246.
A sidelong glance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To blanch.
* 1934 , Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer , Harper Perennial (2005), p.283
As verbs the difference between blenched and blanched
is that blenched is past tense of blench while blanched is past tense of blanch.As an adjective blanched is
lacking complexion or color.blenched
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Verb
(head)blench
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) blenchen, from (etyl)Verb
(es)- Blench not at thy chosen lot.
- This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment.
- "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."
- 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 .
- Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
Noun
(blenches)- Feir weder turnedh ofte into reine; / An wunderliche hit makedh his blench .
- These blenches gave my heart another youth.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(es)- The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.