Definizione monolingua

blench

blench (third-person singular simple present blenches, present participle blenching, simple past and past participle blenched)

1. (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
   • 1998, Andrew Hurley (translator), Jorge Louis Borges, ""Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrnth"", Collected Fictions, Penguin Putnam, p.255

     ""This,"" said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, ""is my ancestral land.""

2. (intransitive) (of the eye) To quail.
3. (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
4. (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
   • 2012, Jan 13, Polly Toynbee, Welfare cuts: Camerons problem is that people are nicer than he thinks, The Guardian

     Yesterday the government proclaimed no turning back, but the lords representing the likes of the disability charity Scope or Macmillan Cancer Support should make them blench.

5. (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

blench (plural blenches)

1. A deceit; a trick.
2. A sideling glance.

Definizione dizionario blench

Altri significati:

to blanch

to flinch