English Dictionary

blench

IPA（発音記号）

/blɛnt͡ʃ/

動詞

自動詞 所有格 他動詞

(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off. / (intransitive, of the eye) To quail. / (transitive) To deceive; cheat.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）縮む、後ずさむ、ひるむ、逃げ出す / （自動詞、目に関して）怯える / （他動詞）欺く、騙す

Under the scorching sun the old woolen blanket began to blench, pulling tighter around the worn seams.

照りつける太陽の下で、古いウールの毛布は縮み始め、擦り切れた縫い目の周りがきつくなった。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

Blench not at thy chosen lot.

意味（2）

(intransitive, of the eye) To quail.

意味（3）

(transitive) To deceive; cheat.

意味（4）

(transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.

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.

意味（5）

(transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.

Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.

blenches （ present singular third-person ）

blenching （ participle present ）

blenched （ participle past ）

blenched （ past ）