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blench vi. 退缩,畏缩 退缩,畏缩 blench v 1: turn pale, as if in fear [ synonym: { pale}, { blanch}, { blench}] Blench \ Blench\, v. t. 1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. -- Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] He now blenched what before he affirmed. -- Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster]
Blench \ Blench\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Blenched}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Blenching}.] [ OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS. blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See { Blink}, and cf. 3d { Blanch}.] 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. [ 1913 Webster] Blench not at thy chosen lot. -- Bryant. [ 1913 Webster] This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. -- Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To fly off; to turn aside. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Blench \ Blench\, n. A looking aside or askance. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] These blenches gave my heart another youth. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Blench \ Blench\, v. i. & t. [ See 1st { Blanch}.] To grow or make pale. -- Barbour. [ 1913 Webster] 72 Moby Thesaurus words for " blench": ache, agonize, ail, anguish, avoid, blanch, bleach, blink, boggle, cringe, decolor, decolorize, demur, dodge, draw back, duck, evade, fade, fall back, falter, feel pain, feel the pangs, fight shy of, flinch, funk, grimace, hang back, hang off, have a misery, have qualms, hesitate, hold off, hurt, jib, make bones about, pause, pound, pull back, quail, recoil, reel back, retreat, scruple, sheer off, shoot, shrink, shrink back, shy, shy at, sidestep, smart, squinch, start, start aside, start back, stick at, stickle, strain, suffer, swerve, thrill, throb, tingle, turn aside, twinge, twitch, waver, weasel, weasel out, white, wince, writhe
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