| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To wan.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To fade.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb blench.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (blench) | 1. Turn pale, as if in fear.[Wordnet]. 2. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.[Websters]. 3. To fly off; to turn aside.[Websters]. 4. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.[Websters]. 5. To draw back from; to deny from fear.[Websters]. 6. To grow or make pale.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: blenching, blenched, blenches, blencher, blenchers, blenchingly and blenchedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BLENCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Specialty Definition: blench
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] and perhaps the modern flinch.] To shrink; to start back to give way.. | 2: [Verb] To hinder or obstruct, says Johnson. But the etymology explains the passage he cites in a different manner. "The rebels carried great trusses of hay before them, to blench the defendants' fight." That is, to render the combat blank; to render it ineffectual; to break the force of the attack; to deaden the shot.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] to blanch. (references) | 2: [Verb] to flinch. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: blench
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Blench holding | See Blanch holding. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Roger Blench | Roger Blench is a linguist. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and remains based in Cambridge, England, and actively researches and publishes, although he works as a private consultant rather than in academia. His main area of linguistic interest is the Niger-Congo language family. He has also written about other language families and endangered languages. He is a frequent skeptic of efforts to match linguistic movements with population migrations. (references) | ||
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