Blench

Definition: Blench

Blench

Verb

1. Turn pale, as if in fear.

Date "blench" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Blench

Synonyms: blanch (v), pale (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Avoidance	Shrink back; hang back, hold back, draw back; recoil; retire; (recede); flinch, blink, blench, shy, shirk, dodge, parry, make way for, give place to.
Fear	Grow pale, turn pale; blench, stand aghast; not dare to say one's soul is one's own.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Blench

English words defined with "blench": Blench holding, Blenched, Blenching, Bleynte. (references)

Etymologies containing "blench": Bleynte. (references)

"Blench" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "Blench" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	42.86%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	28.57%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	28.57%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

Expression using "blench": Blench holding. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "blench"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbythem (recoil, retreat, shrink, shy), zbehem (dim, grow pale, pale, turn green, turn pale), sprapsem (back, give way to). (various references)

Bulgarian		трепвам (flinch, jerk, quail, start, twitch, wince), побледнявам (grow white, pale, wan, whiten), избелвам (blanch, bleach, pale, white), дръпвам се назад (step back). (various references)

Czech		couvnout (balk, flinch). (various references)

French		sursauter. (various references)

German		zurückschrecken (boggle, cringe, deter, discourage, recoil, scare, shrink back, shy away, spring back, start back, to blench). (various references)

Greek		υποχωρώ (abate, back down, back out of, bow, cave in, climb down, defer to, ebb, fall back, flinch, give in, give way to, recede, relent, retreat, subduce, subside, yield), οπισθοχωρώ φοβισμένοσ, οπισθοχωρώ (back, draw back, fall back, flinch, shrink), δειλιάζω (balk, be frightened, doggle, flinch, quail, shrink). (various references)

Hebrew		לחוור (become pale, grow white), ל�"רתע (back away, boggle, cringe, draw back, flinch, recoil, refrain, retract, retreat, withdraw). (various references)

Hungarian		visszariad (boggle, shrank, shrunk, to baulk, to blench, to shrink), elhalványít (decolor, decolorate, decolorize, decolour, to blench, to discolour, to fade out, to pale). (various references)

Italian		indietreggiare (back, draw back, flinch, go, go back, go backwards, hang back, recoil, rein back, retreat, shrink). (various references)

Pig Latin		enchblay

Portuguese		titubear (diddle, dodder, flinch, hesitate, nutate, quail, reel, stagger, toddle, totter, waver), recuar (backpedal, boggle, crawfish, flinch, flunk, indent, kick, off, quail, recede, recoil, retire, retreat), esquivar-se (flinch, flunk), empalidecer (blanch, change color, pale, sallow, whiten). (various references)

Romanian		bate în retragere (beat a retreat, retire, retreat), tresãri de fricã, da înapoi (check, climb, fall back, move back, put away, recede, recoil, repay), înãlbi (blanch, bleach, poach, wash, whiten). (various references)

Russian		трусить (funk, play the woman), отступать (back away, back down, backtrack, change one's base, digress, draw back, fall back, fell back, flinch, give ground, give grounds, lose ground, move back, recede, retire, retrograde, retrogress, stand back, step back), белить (blanch, bleach, whiten, whitewash, whitewashing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ustuknuti (back away, flinch, jib, lose ground, recede, recoil, shrink back, step back). (various references)

Spanish		retroceder por (boggle, retrogress), recular (back, flinch, kick, kick back, recoil), cejar (be chicken, draw back, reel). (various references)

Swedish		rygga tillbaka (flinch, quail, recoil, wince). (various references)

Thai		ถอยหนีเพราะความกลัว. (various references)

Turkish		rengi solmak (fade, pale, weather), rengi atmak (blanch, change colour, fade, pale), irkilmek (be startled, recoil, shy, start, take alarm), geri çekilmek (beat a retreat, disengage, fall back, recede, recoil, regress, retire, retract, retreat, set back, shrink back, stand back, step back, withdraw), ağartmak (blanch, bleach, decolor, decolorize, decolour, decolourize, poach, whiten), ağarmak (break, fade, go gray, go grey, Gray, grey, silver, turn gray, whiten), ürkmek (balk at, be appalled, boggle, dread, get a fright, have a fright, jump, lose one's nerve, quail, scare, shy, start, startle, take fright, wince). (various references)

Ukranian		ухилятися (avoid, back out, balk, crawfish, depart, digress, dodge, elude, equivocate, eschew, evade, flunk, jink, obviate, prevaricate, shirk, shuffle, sidestep, squirm, weasel, weave, wriggle), відступати (back, back down, backtrack, crawfish, deviate, digress, draw back, draw off, drop back, ebb, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, recede, retreat, retrograde, shy, stand away, stand back, walk backward), закривати (bar, break up, close, close down, close up, fasten up, flounce, obturate, occlude, occult, shut). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "blench": blenched, blencher, blenchers, blenches, blenching. (additional references)
	Words containing "blench": unblenched. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Blench" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baensch, Balcnh, Balech, Balenscu, Bellanoch, blach, Bladnoch, Blaich, blance, blanh, Blech, bleech, Bleeuch, Bleich, bletch, Blinch, Blonc, brench, Glendhu, Lencho. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-l-n"
	-1 letter: belch, bench.
	-2 letters: lech.
	-3 letters: bel, ben, cel, hen, neb.
	-4 letters: be, eh, el, en, he, ne.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-l-n"
	+2 letters: belching, blanched, blancher, blanches, blenched, blencher, blenches.
	+3 letters: benchland, blanchers, bleaching, blenchers, blenching, branchlet.
	+4 letters: bechalking, beclothing, benchlands, branchless, branchlets, branchline, bronchiole, changeable, changeably, crunchable, encashable, machinable, quenchable, unbleached, unblenched, unchewable.
	+5 letters: bellyaching, blackhander, branchlines, bronchioles, bullfinches, chamberlain, hibernacula, hornblendic, machineable, pitchblende, shacklebone, uncatchable, uncheckable, uncrushable, unmatchable, unreachable, unshockable, unteachable, untouchable, unwatchable.
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