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blench

Pronunciation: /blɛnt͡ʃ/

The English word “blench” has 9 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
  2. To quail.
  3. To deceive; cheat.
  4. To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
  5. To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  6. To fly off; to turn aside.
  7. To blanch.

noun

  1. A deceit; a trick.
  2. A sidelong glance.

Etymology

From Middle English blench (noun) and blenchen (verb), from Old English blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blankijan, from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).

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