blanch vs flinch

blanch

verb
  • To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. 

  • To cause to turn aside or back. 

  • To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten; 

  • To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining) 

  • To grow or become white. 

  • To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach. 

  • To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. 

  • To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together 

  • To use evasion. 

  • To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water. 

  • To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices 

  • To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding 

flinch

verb
  • To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty 

  • To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe. 

  • To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. 

noun
  • The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet. 

  • A reflexive jerking away. 

How often have the words blanch and flinch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )