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blench.

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

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/blɛnt͡ʃ/

  1. To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

    intransitive

  2. To quail.

    intransitive

  3. To deceive; cheat.

    transitive

  4. To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.

    transitive

  5. To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

    transitive

  6. To fly off; to turn aside.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

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”).

noun/blɛnt͡ʃ/

  1. A deceit; a trick.

  2. A sidelong glance.

Where this word comes from

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”).

verb/blɛnt͡ʃ/

  1. To blanch.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

Variant of blanch, from Middle English blanchen, blaunchen, from Old French blanchir (“to whiten, bleach”), from blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin; compare Middle English blenchen (“to turn pale", also "to flinch; deceive”), from Old English blenċan. More at blank.

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