[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
blenched blenching blink blanch 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blench \blench\, n.
   a looking aside or askance. obs.
   1913 webster

         these blenches gave my heart another youth. --shak.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blench \blench\, v. i.  t. see 1st blanch.
   to grow or make pale. --barbour.
   1913 webster
see also:
blanch 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

blench
     v : turn pale, as if in fear syn: pale, blanch
see also:
pale blanch 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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