blench

  1. Verb.  (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) (context, of the eye) To quail.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  6. Noun.  A deceit; a trick. .
  7. Noun.  A sideling glance.
  8. Verb.  (obsolete) To blanch (rfdef, lang en) .

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