Thesaurus: blench

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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. 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. 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. A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak. To grow or make pale. Barbour.
9. A looking aside or askance. [Obs.]These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.
10. v turn pale, as if in fear