Blench

Quick meaning: Blench is a verb meaning (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

Meaning

(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
2. (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
3. (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
4. (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
5. (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
6. A deceit; a trick.
7. A sidelong glance.

Example Sentences

Blench not at thy chosen lot.

These blenches gave my heart another youth.

Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.

This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfilment.

Word Forms

• blenches
• blenching
• blenched

Synonyms for blench

Depending on context, synonyms include pale, blanch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pale, blanch, blunk, shrink, quitch, cringe.

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