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| to shrink; flinch; quail: an unsteady eye that blenched under another's gaze. |
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME blenchen, OE blencan; c. ON blekkja, MHG blenken
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blencher, noun
blench·ing·ly, adverb
—Synonyms See wince.
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Blencher
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| blench 1
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intr.v. blenched, blench·ing, blench·es To draw back or shy away, as from fear; flinch. [Middle English blenchen, from Old English blencan, to deceive; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.] blench'er n. |
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Blencher
Blench"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs.] 2. One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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