Usually means: Turned pale from fear, shock.
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  1. blenched: Merriam-Webster
  2. blenched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. blenched: Vocabulary.com
  4. blenched: Wordnik
  5. blenched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. blenched: Wiktionary
  7. Blenched, blenched: Dictionary.com
  8. Blenched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Blenched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. blenched: FreeDictionary.org
  11. blenched: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blench)

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