Chiefly Dial., Brit. to make or become pale; whiten; bleach
Origin of blench
variant, variety of blanchblench
blenchDial., Brit. to shrink back, as in fear; flinch; quail
Origin of blench
Middle English blenchen, move suddenly, avoid from Old English blencan, to deceive, akin to German blinken; ultimately from Indo-European base of blankWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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blench
intransitive verb
blenched, blench·ing, blench·esTo draw back or shy away, as from fear; flinch.
Origin of blench
Middle English blenchen from Old English blencan to deceive ; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- blench′er
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verb
Variant of blanch
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present blenches, present participle blenching, simple past and past participle blenched)
Origin
From Middle English blenchen, from Old English blencan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to burn, shine, scorch”). Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).
Verb
(third-person singular simple present blenches, present participle blenching, simple past and past participle blenched)
- (obsolete) To blanch.
Origin
From Old French blanchir (“to bleach”).
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