stanch

English

Alternative forms

• staunch

Etymology

See staunch.

Verb

stanch (third-person singular simple present stanches, present participle stanching, simple past and past participle stanched)

1. (transitive) To stop the flow of.

   A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.

   • Francis Bacon

     Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.

2. (transitive) To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
   • Emerson

     His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow tower when snow should fall.

3. To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.

Translations

To stop the flow of

• Russian: останавливать (ru) (ostanavlivatʹ)

Noun

stanch (plural stanches)

1. That which stanches or checks.
2. A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.

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Anagrams

• chants
• snatch