Thesaurus: blench
To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
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Definitions
- v. i. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
- v. i. To fly off; to turn aside.
- v. t. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
- v. t. To draw back from; to deny from fear.
- n. A looking aside or askance.
- v. i. & t. To grow or make pale.
- v. turn pale, as if in fear
- v turn pale, as if in fear