Definition of "blench" in English

verb

1. (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

   • "This," said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, "is my ancestral land."

2. (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.

3. (transitive) To deceive; cheat.

4. (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.

5. (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

6. (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.

noun

1. A deceit; a trick.

2. A sidelong glance.

verb

1. (obsolete) To blanch.