Blench vs Succumb - What's the difference?
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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
(lb) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
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(lb) To give up, or give in.
(lb) To die.
Blench is a related term of succumb.
As verbs the difference between blench and succumb
is that blench is to shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off or blench can be (obsolete) to blanch while succumb is (lb) to yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.As a noun blench
is a deceit; a trick.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.
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