
1) Blanch 2) Color 3) Colour 4) Discolor 5) Discolour 6) Exclusively Saxon word 7) Exclusively Anglo word 8) Flinch 9) Flinch or cringe 10) Pale 11) Shrink back 12) To shrink 13) Word of purely Anglo origin 14) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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1) Blanch
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to shrink or flinch
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• (v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside. • (v. i. & t.) To grow or make pale. • (n.) A looking aside or askance. • (v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. • (v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. • (v. t.) To draw bac...
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Blench intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Blenched ;
present participle & verbal noun Blenching .] [ Middle English
blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, Anglo-Saxon
blencan to deceive; akin to Icelandic
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Blench noun A looking aside or askance. [ Obsolete] « These
blenches gave my heart another youth.
Shak. »
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Blench transitive verb 1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [ Obsolete] « Ye should have somewhat
blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further.
Sir T. More. »
2. To draw back from; to d...
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to shrink; flinch; quail: an unsteady eye that blenched under another's gaze.
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