blench

Plural: blenches

Verb

Verb Forms: blenched, blenching, blenches

To flinch or shrink back from something in fear or pain.
turn pale, as if in fear
To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
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.
To blanch.

Noun

A deceit; a trick.
A sidelong glance.

Examples

He would BLENCH whenever his opponent spelled a difficult, obscure word in Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

blanch, pale

Scrabble Score: 13

blench: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
blench: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blench: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

blench: valid Words With Friends Word