Definitions for blenches

blenches blench

Spelling: [blench]
IPA: /blɛntʃ/

Blenches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in blenches (bceehlns).

Definitions for blenches

verb (used without object)

  1. to shrink; flinch; quail:

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to make or become pale or white; blanch.

Origin of blenches

before 1000; Middle English blenchen, Old English blencan; cognate with Old Norse blekkja, Middle High German blenken

Examples for blenches

Musa got closer to Mr. Ziegler, who did not blench nor cease from his humming.

Now it is the turn of his judges to blench, for his persecutors to tremble.

But though it fell, the people of the dauntless city did not blench.

But she did not blench in the least, though she remembered whose words he was quoting.

His cheek did not blench, his lips quiver, nor his limbs tremble.

It had to be looked out on the map, but the chauffeur, trained to the hour, did not blench.

Like Hamlet with the king at the play, "If he but blench, I know my course!"

It did not blench, and I began to wonder if, after all, he might not be honest.

Some things he had never yet talked about; it made his mind blench to think of talking about them.

This word, sometimes confounded with ‘unblanched,’ is from blench, a causal of blink.

Word Value for blenches
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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