Wince vs Blanch - What's the difference?

wince | blanch |

As a noun wince

is a sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.

As a verb wince

is to flinch as if in pain or distress.

As a proper noun blanch is

, a less common spelling of blanche.

wince

English

Noun

(en noun)

A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.

A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.

Verb

(winc)

To flinch as if in pain or distress.

* (William Shakespeare)

I will not stir, nor wince , nor speak a word.

* , chapter=17

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=

, title=The Norwich Victims, chapter=7/2 citation , passage=The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.}}

To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.

To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.

blanch

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) blanchir

Verb

(es)

To grow or become white

his cheek blanched with fear

the rose blanches in the sun

To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach

to blanch linen

age has blanched his hair

(cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.

To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices

To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together

To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding

to blanch almonds

To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)

To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

(figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate

* Tillotson

Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.

Etymology 2

Variant of blench

Verb

(es)

To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

* Francis Bacon

Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.

* Reliq. Wot

I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.

To cause to turn aside or back.

to blanch a deer

To use evasion.

* Francis Bacon

Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch .

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