0 to move back or away suddenly or react physically because something frightens, disgusts (= shocks), or upsets you: --
Blench apparently treats them as half a dozen languages in two branches.
I rather blench at having 1,352 registers.
Modern pluralism is thus at least sufficiently sociologically self-aware not to blench from the insight that a liberal polity is the political form of bourgeois capitalist society.
