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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To draw back or shy away, as from fear; flinch.
  2. v. Variant of blanch.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
  2. To quail: said of the eye.
  3. To deceive; cheat.
  4. To draw back from; shirk; avoid; elude; deny from fear.
  5. To hinder or obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  6. n. A deceit; a trick.
  7. n. A sidelong glance.
  8. Upon or based upon the payment of a nominal or trifling yearly duty: applied to a sort of tenure of land: as, the estate is held blench of the crown. See blanch-holding.
  9. To become pale; blanch.
  10. To make white; blanch.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
  2. v. intransitive (of the eye) To quail.
  3. v. transitive To deceive; cheat.
  4. v. transitive To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
  5. v. transitive To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  6. n. A deceit; a trick.
  7. n. A sideling glance.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. turn pale, as if in fear

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English blenchen, from Old English blencan ("to deceive, cheat"), from Proto-Germanic *blankijanan (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to burn, shine, scorch”). Cognate with Icelandic blekkja ("to deceive, cheat, impose upon"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English blenchen, from Old English blencan, to deceive; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

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  1. shrink
  1. flinch
  1. quail
  1. baffle
  1. disconcert
  1. hinder
  1. Shir

hypernyms (4)

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  • yarb The mouth of the river was barred by a rosy, drowsy sunrise; the sky had lost its stars, and had blenched, and was being flooded by a brave daylight blue...

    - Rebecca West, The Judge Jul 16, 2009

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