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Thesaurus: blench

To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

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  1. v. i. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
  2. v. i. To fly off; to turn aside.
  3. v. t. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
  4. v. t. To draw back from; to deny from fear.
  5. n. A looking aside or askance.
  6. v. i. & t. To grow or make pale.
  7. v. turn pale, as if in fear
  8. v turn pale, as if in fear