blench

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

Blench not at thy chosen lot.

This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfilment.

To quail.

To deceive; cheat.

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.

To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

A deceit; a trick.

A sidelong glance.

These blenches gave my heart another youth.

To blanch.

The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.