[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Causing the eyes to turn away or flinch.
1833. Mrs. Browning, Prometh. Bound, Poems (1850), I. 186. Let him now hurl his blenching lightnings down. Ibid., Grief, ibid. I. 326. Under the blenching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute Heavens.
