[blench] 
| to shrink; flinch; quail: an unsteady eye that blenched under another's gaze. |
[blench] | to make or become pale or white; blanch. |
| blanch (blānch) v. blanched also blenched, blanch·ing also blench·ing, blanch·es also blench·es v. tr.
To turn white or become pale: Their faces blanched in terror. [Middle English blaunchen, to make white, from Old French blanchir, from blanche, feminine of blanc, white, of Germanic origin; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.] blanch'er n. |
| blench 1 (blěnch) 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. |
| blench 2 (blěnch) v. Variant of blanch. |