English Dictionary

blench

/blɛnt͡ʃ/

verb

(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off. / (intransitive, of the eye) To quail. / (transitive) To deceive; cheat.

She blenched at the sight of blood.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

Blench not at thy chosen lot.

意味（2）

(intransitive, of the eye) To quail.

意味（3）

(transitive) To deceive; cheat.

意味（4）

(transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.

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.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.

Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.