Blench vs. Blanch
Blenchverb
(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
Blenchverb
To quail.
Blenchverb
(transitive) To deceive; cheat.
Blenchverb
(transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
Blenchverb
(transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
Blenchverb
(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
Blenchverb
(obsolete) To blanch.
Blenchnoun
A deceit; a trick.
Blenchnoun
A sidelong glance.
Blenchverb
To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
Blenchverb
To fly off; to turn aside.
Blenchverb
To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; - also, to obstruct; to hinder.
Blenchverb
To draw back from; to deny from fear.
Blenchverb
To grow or make pale.
Blenchnoun
A looking aside or askance.
Blenchverb
turn pale, as if in fear
Blanchverb
(intransitive) To grow or become white
Blanchverb
(transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
Blanchverb
To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
Blanchverb
(transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
Blanchverb
(transitive) To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
Blanchverb
(transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding
Blanchverb
(transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
Blanchverb
(tntransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
Blanchverb
To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
Blanchverb
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
Blanchverb
To cause to turn aside or back.
Blanchverb
To use evasion.
Blanchverb
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
Blanchverb
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
Blanchverb
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
Blanchverb
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
Blanchverb
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
Blanchverb
Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
Blanchverb
To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
Blanchverb
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
Blanchverb
To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
Blanchverb
To use evasion.
Blanchnoun
Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
Blanchverb
turn pale, as if in fear
Blanchverb
cook (vegetables) briefly;
