blench

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A deceit; a trick.
  2. A sidelong glance.
    — These blenches gave my heart another youth.
动词 v.
  1. To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off. intransitive
    — Blench not at thy chosen lot.
  2. To blanch. obsolete
    — The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.
  3. To quail. intransitive
  4. To deceive; cheat. transitive
  5. To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear. transitive
    — Yesterday the government proclaimed no turning back, but the lords representing the likes of the disability charity Scope or Macmillan Cancer Support should make them blench.
  6. To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil. transitive
  7. To fly off; to turn aside. intransitive
    — Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.

词形变化

blenches present,singular,third-person blenching participle,present blenched participle,past blenched past blenches plural blenches present,singular,third-person blenching participle,present blenched participle,past blenched past

词汇关系

衍生词
blencher unblenched unblenching

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Old French blanchir (“to bleach”).
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