Definitions for stanch

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stanch stanch

Spelling: [stawnch, stanch, stahnch]

IPA: /stɔntʃ, stæntʃ, stɑntʃ/

Stanch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in stanch (achnst).

Definitions for stanch

noun

1. Also called flash-lock, navigation weir. a lock that, after being partially emptied, is opened suddenly to send a boat over a shallow place with a rush of water.

adjective

1. staunch2 .

verb (used with object)

1. to stop the flow of (a liquid, especially blood).
2. to stop the flow of blood or other liquid from (a wound, leak, etc.).
3. Archaic. to check, allay, or extinguish.

verb (used without object)

1. to stop flowing, as blood; be stanched.

Origin of stanch

1275-1325; Middle English stanchen, staunchen (v.) Old French estanchier to close, stop, slake (thirst) Vulgar Latin *stanticāre, equivalent to Latin stant- (stem of stāns, present participle

Examples for stanch

She was a stanch five-year-old, and she had roamed the mountains about Pop's place at will.

In a swift move to stanch the controversy, Governor Rockefeller demanded the piece be removed.

But Clapper  has also failed fundamentally to stanch the leakage of secrets so emblematic of his tenure atop the community.

After all, he was a stanch friend, and he braved no common dangers in his pursuit.

The Obama administration began 2009 with an aggressive stimulus to stanch the rapid deterioration of the economy.

Seating him on the cart, she proceeded to stanch the bleeding with the edge of her gown.

Meanwhile we laid him on his bed, and I did what I could to stanch the bleeding and ease his suffering.

A neighbor tried in vain to stanch the bleeding with a towel.

The Forward will be a stanch ship and she will carry good engines.

She reserved articles she presented to her stanch friend, Kate O'Brien.