Synonyms of the word blench


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blench

  • v. (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
  • v. (intransitive) (of the eye) To quail.
  • v. (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
  • v. (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
  • v. (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  • v. (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
  • n. A deceit; a trick.
  • n. A sidelong glance.
  • v. (obsolete) To blanch.

blanch

  • v. (intransitive) To grow or become white.
  • v. (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
  • v. (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
  • v. (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards…
  • v. (transitive) To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing…
  • v. (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
  • v. (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining).
  • v. (tntransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
  • v. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  • v. To cause to turn aside or back.
  • v. To use evasion.

color

  • n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
  • n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
  • n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
  • n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  • n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
  • n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
  • n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
  • n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
  • n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
  • n. The system of color television.
  • n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  • n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
  • n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
  • n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
  • n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
  • n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
  • n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
  • n. An appearance of right or authority.
  • n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
  • adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
  • v. To give something color.
  • v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
  • v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  • v. To affect without completely changing.
  • v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
  • v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colour

  • n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
  • n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
  • n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
  • n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
  • n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
  • n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
  • n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
  • n. The system of colour television.
  • n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
  • n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
  • n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
  • n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
  • n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
  • n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
  • n. An appearance of right or authority.
  • n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
  • adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
  • v. To give something colour.
  • v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
  • v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
  • v. To affect without completely changing.
  • v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
  • v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

discolor

  • v. (American) To change or lose color.

discolour

  • v. (British spelling, Canadian, transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of discolor (US).

pale

  • adj. Light in color.
  • adj. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
  • adj. Feeble, faint.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
  • v. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
  • v. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
  • n. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
  • n. A wooden stake; a picket.
  • n. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
  • n. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
  • n. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
  • n. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
  • n. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
  • n. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
  • n. A cheese scoop.
  • n. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
  • v. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

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