blench

vi. 退缩, 畏缩

发音

其它 /blɛnt͡ʃ/

词形变化

blenches 复数 blenches 三单 blenching 现在分词 blenched 过去式 blenched 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A deceit; a trick.

  2. 2.

    A sidelong glance.

v.
  1. 1.

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

    不及物

    "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."

  2. 2.

    To quail.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To deceive; cheat.

    及物
  4. 4.

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

    及物
  5. 5.

    To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

    及物
  6. 6.

    To fly off; to turn aside.

    不及物
  7. 1.

    To blanch.

    废旧

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

pale blanch

上位词 4

color colour discolor discolour

相关短语

blench holding blench holdings blanch holding

词源

From Middle English blench and blenchen, from Old English blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).

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