blench
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Is blench a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of blench?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.Examples: "Blench not at thy chosen lot."; "This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfilment."; "Suddenly the great beast beat its hideous wings. […] Again it leaped into the air, and then swiftly fell down upon Éowyn, shrieking, striking with beak and claw. Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings […]"intransitive
2. (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.intransitive
3. (transitive) To deceive; cheat.transitive
4. (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.Examples: "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."transitive
5. (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.transitive
6. (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.Examples: "Though sometimes you do blench from this to that."intransitive
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To blanch.Examples: "The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary