Word Meanings - BLENCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,

Additional info about word: BLENCH

deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey. 2. To fly off; to turn aside. Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLENCH)

• Flinch
• Blench
• swerve
• wince
• recoil
• Quail
• Sink
• shrink
• cower
• succumb
• crouch
• flinch
• blench
• tremble

Related words: (words related to BLENCH)

• BLENCH
  deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• CROUCHED
  Marked with the sign of the cross. Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.
• FLINCHER
  One who flinches or fails.
• QUAIL
  pain, G. qual torment, OHG. quelan to suffer torment, Lith. gelti to 1. To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade. Spenser. 2. To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• SHRINKING
  from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.
• FLINCH
  To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. (more info) 1. To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink;
• WINCE
  guinchier, and winchier, winchir, to give way, to turn aside, fr. OHG. wankjan, wenken, to give way, to waver, fr. winchan 1. To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back. I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word. Shak.
• SHRINKER
  One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
• RECOILMENT
  Recoil.
• CROUCH
  creep, G. krauchen, kriechen, or E. crook to bend, also crouch to 1. To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. Now crouch like a cur. Beau. & Fl. 2. To bend servilely;
• TREMBLER
  One who trembles.
• SWERVE
  OFries. swerva to creep, D. zwerven to swerve, to rope, OS. swerban to wipe off, MHG. swerben to be whirled, OHG. swerban to wipe off, Icel. sverfa to file, Goth. swaírban to wipe, and perhaps 1. To stray; to wander; to rope. A maid thitherward
• COWER
  To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.
• RECOIL
  fundament. The English word was perhaps influenced in form by 1. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity
• WINCEY
  Linsey-woolsey.
• SUCCUMB
  To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
• SHRINKAGE
  1. The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement. 2. The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc. 3. Decrease in value; depreciation.
• BLENCHER
  1. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. 2. One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
• SEA QUAIL
  The turnstone.
• SQUAIL
  To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. Southey.
• BEDSWERVER
  One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. Shak.