The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
Blench not at thy chosen lot.
--Bryant.This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment.
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To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.]
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of blench English)
Usage examples of "blenching".
If the eye that adventures the vision be dimmed by vice, impure, or weak, and unable in its cowardly blenching to see the uttermost brightness, then it sees nothing even though another point to what lies plain to sight before it.