Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blench
Participle: blenched
Gerund: blenching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blench |
| you | blench |
| he;she;it | blenches |
| we | blench |
| you | blench |
| they | blench |
Perfect
| I | have blenched |
| you | have blenched |
| he;she;it | has blenched |
| we | have blenched |
| you | have blenched |
| they | have blenched |
Past
| I | blenched |
| you | blenched |
| he;she;it | blenched |
| we | blenched |
| you | blenched |
| they | blenched |
Pluperfect
| I | had blenched |
| you | had blenched |
| he;she;it | had blenched |
| we | had blenched |
| you | had blenched |
| they | had blenched |
Future
| I | will blench |
| you | will blench |
| he;she;it | will blench |
| we | will blench |
| you | will blench |
| they | will blench |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blenched |
| you | will have blenched |
| he;she;it | will have blenched |
| we | will have blenched |
| you | will have blenched |
| they | will have blenched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blench |
| you | blench |
| he;she;it | blench |
| we | blench |
| you | blench |
| they | blench |
Perfect
| I | have blenched |
| you | have blenched |
| he;she;it | have blenched |
| we | have blenched |
| you | have blenched |
| they | have blenched |
Imperfect
| I | blenched |
| you | blenched |
| he;she;it | blenched |
| we | blenched |
| you | blenched |
| they | blenched |
Pluperfect
| I | had blenched |
| you | had blenched |
| he;she;it | had blenched |
| we | had blenched |
| you | had blenched |
| they | had blenched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blench |
| you | would blench |
| he;she;it | would blench |
| we | would blench |
| you | would blench |
| they | would blench |
Perfect
| I | would have blenched |
| you | would have blenched |
| he;she;it | would have blenched |
| we | would have blenched |
| you | would have blenched |
| they | would have blenched |
Imperative
| you | blench |
| we | Let's blench |
| you | blench |
Verbs conjugated like 'blench'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blench'
bench,
blanch,
bleach,
blech,
clench,
flench,
beach,
belch,
bentch,
blanco,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English blench (noun) and blenchen (verb), from Old English blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blankijan, from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*blankijaną', Icelandic '
blekkja'.
Verbs referencing "blench"
English
blink, Icelandic
blekkja.
Sample Sentences
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Blench not at thy chosen lot. [a. 1870, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field:]
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This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfilment. [1820, Francis Jeffrey, “Life of Curran”, in The Edinburgh Review May 1820:]
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Suddenly the great beast beat its hideous wings. […] Again it leaped into the air, and then swiftly fell down upon Éowyn, shrieking, striking with beak and claw. Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings […] [1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King:]
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Even a case-hardened monorailist must blench at the thought of the storm such a proposition would create. [1964 July, “The mythology of monorails”, in Modern Railways, page 57:]
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"This," said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, "is my ancestral land." [1998, Andrew Hurley (translator), Jorge Louis Borges, "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth", Collected Fictions, Penguin Putnam, p.255]
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Yesterday the government proclaimed no turning back, but the lords representing the likes of the disability charity Scope or Macmillan Cancer Support should make them blench. [2012 January 13, Polly Toynbee, “Welfare cuts: Cameron's problem is that people are nicer than he thinks”, in The Guardian:]
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Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:]