Definition of "blench" [blench]

• To draw back or shy away, as from fear; flinch. (verb-intransitive)
• Variant of blanch. (verb)

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• "( "The word 'blench' came from Rehnquist," Bradley says."
• "For the true face of catwalk evil, look instead to the girl models, some so emaciated they made Samantha Cameron blench in shock."
• "How my words, my very presence and smell of me, of my words, must make you furiously blench!"