blench🔊

To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

(of the eye) To quail.

To deceive; cheat.

To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.

To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

To fly off; to turn aside.

A deceit; a trick.

A sidelong glance.

(obsolete) To blanch.