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Definition of Blench
1. Verb. Turn pale, as if in fear.
Generic synonyms: Color, Colour, Discolor, Discolour
Derivative terms: Pallor
Definition of Blench
1. v. i. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
2. v. t. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
3. n. A looking aside or askance.
4. v. i. & t. To grow or make pale.
Definition of Blench
1. Verb. (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) (context: of the eye) To quail. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To deceive; cheat. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil. ¹
6. Noun. A deceit; a trick. ¹
7. Noun. A sideling glance. ¹
8. Verb. (obsolete) To blanch . ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blench
1. to flinch [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: flinch
Medical Definition of Blench
1. A looking aside or askance. "These blenches gave my heart another youth." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blench
Literary usage of Blench
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... Nor blench, so far as in us lies the strength ; For, howsoe'er the spirit burn
to war, No man can pass the measure of his strength. ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... blench, to start aside, to flinch, shrink. Fletcher, False One, iv. 4. ...
give way, to ' blench' ; ' The which will not Wince' (riming with prince, ..."
3. Revenue of the Scottish Crown, 1681 by William Purves (1897)
"... few o3 blench duties of the severall landes holden few & blench of his Majestie
in his King- dome of Scotland ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1863)
"And blench not at thy chosen lot. The timid good may stand aloof, Yet nerve thy
spirit to the proof, The sage may frown—yet faint thou not. ..."
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