Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To stop or check the flow of (blood or tears, for example).
- transitive verb To stop the flow of blood from (a wound).
- transitive verb To stop, check, or allay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which stanches; that which quenches or allays.
- Dry; free from water; water-tight; sound: said of a vessel.
- Strong; firm.
- Sound and trustworthy; true: applied to hounds with reference to their keeping the scent.
- Sound or firm in principle; loyal; hearty; trustworthy.
- Synonyms Stout, steadfast, resolute, stable, unwavering.
- noun A flood-gate in a river for accumulating a head of water to float boats over shallows; a weir. See
stank . - To cause to cease flowing; check the flow of.
- To stop a flow from; dry, as a wound, by the application of a styptic.
- To quench; allay; assuage.
- To free; relieve: with of.
- To stop flowing; be stanched.
- To stop; cease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To cease, as the flowing of blood.
- adjective Strong and tight; sound; firm.
- adjective Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast.
- adjective obsolete Close; secret; private.
- transitive verb To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
- noun obsolete That which stanches or checks.
- noun A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
- transitive verb To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from.
- transitive verb obsolete To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
stop theflow of. - verb transitive To
prop ; to make stanch, or strong.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb stop the flow of a liquid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All of them say the same thing, that stanch is the more common verbal spelling and that staunch is the more common adjectival spelling, but that the two are interchangeable.
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All of them say the same thing, that stanch is the more common verbal spelling and that staunch is the more common adjectival spelling, but that the two are interchangeable.
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And at his call the stanch hearts unite into one great, strong heart, deep and sensitive as a silver bell not yet cast.
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I believe she could have a great charity, that no evil-doing would dismay her: "stanch" sums her up.
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However, given their poor track record in maintaining, let alone growing, their market share, it seems unlikely that mainline Protestant congregations such as the UCC will stanch the flow of young people out of religion.
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SINGAPORE—A rise in Japan's shares led most Asian stock markets higher Friday, as the Group of Seven industrialized nations agreed to a coordinated intervention to stanch the yen's recent surge, providing some relief as the nation grapples with last week's crippling earthquake and a continuing nuclear crisis.
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As non-executive chairman, Mr. Smale served as a corporate architect while Mr. Smith worked to stanch losses of $11 million a day.
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The news comes as the city and state governments are getting traction in their efforts to generate more high-skilled technology and help stanch the anticipated loss to the economy of thousands of finance jobs.
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Fail to stanch the flow of illegal aliens across the Mexican-United States border.
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Fail to stanch the flow of illegal aliens across the Mexican-United States border.
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