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Clenches vs Blenches - What's the difference?

clenches | blenches |

As verbs the difference between clenches and blenches

is that clenches is third-person singular of clench while blenches is third-person singular of blench.

clenches

English

Verb

(head)
  • (clench)
  • ----

    clench

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • Tight grip.
  • (engineering) A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.
  • A local chapter of the (Church of the SubGenius) parody religion.
  • * 1989 , Ted Schultz, The Fringes of Reason (page 210)
  • And perhaps most innovative of all, Drummond and Stang pushed for a policy of clench autonomy
  • * 2003 , Peter Knight, Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia (page 170)
  • Every SubGenius clench is required to have a member who does not believe
  • * 2012 , George D. Chryssides, Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (page 95)
  • Originality is encouraged, and some clenches have devised their own distinctive organizational names

    Verb

    (es)
  • To squeeze; to grip or hold tightly.
  • He clenched his fist in anger.
  • To move two parts of something against each other
  • Bruxism is clenching the jaws.

    Synonyms

    * clasp * clutch

    Antonyms

    * unclench

    blenches

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blench)

  • 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.

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