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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blench \Blench\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blenched}; p. pr & vb n. {Blenching}.] [OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See {Blink}, and cf 3d {Blanch}.] 1. To shrink; to start back to draw back from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot --Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. --Jeffrey. 2. To fly off to turn aside. [Obs.] Though sometimes you do blench from this to that --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blench \Blench\, v. t. 1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away -- also to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.] Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. --Sir T. More 2. To draw back from to deny from fear. [Obs.] He now blenched what before he affirmed. --Evelyn. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blench \Blench\, n. A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blench \Blench\, v. i. & t. [See 1st {Blanch}.] To grow or make pale. --Barbour. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: blench v : turn pale, as if in fear [syn: {pale}, {blanch}]
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