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As a verb blench is

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

As a noun blench is

a deceit; a trick.

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blench

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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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