blench

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

blenches

V_ing/Gerund

blenching

V_ed/pp

blenched

1.
(intransitive)To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
"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)(intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
3.
(transitive)To deceive; cheat.
4.
(transitive)To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
5.
(transitive)To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
6.
(intransitive)To fly off; to turn aside.
7.
(obsolete)To blanch.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

blenches

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

Từ liên quan

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unblenched unblenchingblencherblench holding

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English blench and blenchen, from Old English blenċan (to deceive, cheat), from *blankijan, from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (to deceive), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with blekkja.