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blench

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6 lettersPronunciation /blɛnt͡ʃ/Part of speech verbSorted bcehlnStarts with BEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. turn pale, as if in fear

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • Blench not at thy chosen lot.
  • This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfilment.
  • Even a case-hardened monorailist must blench at the thought of the storm such a proposition would create.

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