Clenches vs Blenches - What's the difference?
clenches | blenches |
(clench)
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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)
* 2003 , Peter Knight, Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia (page 170)
* 2012 , George D. Chryssides, Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (page 95)
To squeeze; to grip or hold tightly.
To move two parts of something against each other
(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 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
English
Noun
(es)- And perhaps most innovative of all, Drummond and Stang pushed for a policy of clench autonomy
- Every SubGenius clench is required to have a member who does not believe
- Originality is encouraged, and some clenches have devised their own distinctive organizational names
Verb
(es)- He clenched his fist in anger.
- Bruxism is clenching the jaws.
Synonyms
* clasp * clutchAntonyms
* unclenchblenches
English
Verb
(head)blench
English
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.