Stanch

Quick meaning: Stanch is an adjective meaning (transitive, poetic, otherwise archaic) To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).

Meaning

(transitive, poetic, otherwise archaic) To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To check or stop, or deter (an action).
2. (transitive, obsolete) To extinguish or put out (as a fire, anger, etc.); also, to quench or satisfy (as desire, hunger, thirst, etc.).
3. (intransitive, also reflexive) Of bleeding: to stop.
4. (intransitive, also reflexive, obsolete) Of an occurrence or other thing: to come to an end; to cease; also, of persons: to stop acting violently.
5. Archaic spelling of staunch.
6. Alternative spelling of staunch (“that which stanches; act of stanching”).
7. (obsolete) Possibly strictly.

Example Sentences

a stanch ship a stanch churchman

This part of the castle was burned last autumn; but it is now under repair, and the wall of the tower is still stanch and strong.

In Politicks, I hear, you're ſtanch, / Directly bent againſt the French; / Deny to have your free-born Toe / Dragoon'd into a VVooden Shoe: […]

Hovv goodly, and hovv to be vviſht vvere ſuch an obedient unanimity as this, vvhat a fine conformity vvould it ſtarch us all into? doubtles a ſtanch and ſolid peece of frame-vvork, as any January could freeze together.

Word Forms

• stancher
• stanchest
• stanches
• stanching
• stanched
• stanchedst
• stancheth
• staunch

Synonyms for stanch

Depending on context, synonyms include estop, stopple, staunch, stem, halt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include halt, staunch, stem, stanchly, styll, strait.

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