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stanch
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Word definitions for stanch in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stanch \Stanch\, v. t. To prop; to make stanch, or strong. His gathered sticks to stanch the wall Of the snow tower when snow should fall. --Emerson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to stop the flow of" (especially of blood), early 14c., from Old French estanchier "cause to cease flowing (of blood), stop, hinder; extinguish (of fire); tire, exhaust, drain" (Modern French étancher ), from Vulgar Latin *stancare , perhaps contracted ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide" [syn: stem , staunch , halt ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And at first I tried to stanch my panic by telling myself it was only that: a show of freedom. ▪ In shock, I tied my sock around the worst-cut foot to try and stanch the flow of blood. ▪ The lack of scientific basis for many ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Strong and tight; sound; firm. 2 Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast. 3 Close; secret; private. n. 1 That which stanches or checks. 2 A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a ...
Usage examples of stanch.
The Tonton Macoute stared at Taureau for a moment with unbelieving eyes, and then, blood fountaining from his shoulder, he fell weeping to the floor, trying unsuccessfully to stanch the bleeding with his remaining hand.
Hanna was a stanch friend of the gold standard, but he was too clever to alienate the sympathies of the Republican silverites by supporting the nomination of a man known to be an uncompromising advocate of gold.
Through all of his hilarious experiences at Fardale, Frank had not a stancher adherent.
Lichen was also good for stanching wounds, but they had plenty of that.
Finally, with a last wrench of her will, she clenched her hands together, entwining her fingers, stanching the flow.
Buck wrestled him into the shelter and tried stanching the blood flow again, but Tsion reached for him with weak, fluttery hands.
The thick rope cut into her stomach, stanching her ability to breathe.
He held his arm beneath the surface in hopes of stanching the bleeding and hiding the smell from the dogs.
It speaks volumes for the stanch fidelity of the country people to the cause which MacKenzie represented, that during these wanderings he was unbetrayed, spite of the 1000 pounds reward.
They arrive here, and breed early in the spring--sometimes, indeed, before the snow is off the hills--get their young off in June, and with their young are most unmercifully, most unsportsmanly, thinned off, when they can hardly fly--such is the error, as I think it, of the law--but I could not convince my stanch friends, Philo, and J.
Rosenheimer, a pudding-faced, but stanch young Briton of the old Pomeranian strain.
I said to him all that I could, and all that it was my duty to say in the way of compliment, while he was stanching the blood with his handkerchief, and on looking at the point of my sword I was delighted to find that the wound was of the slightest.
It may seem a paradox to class democracy with the barbaric constitutions, and yet as it is defended by many stanch democrats, especially European democrats and revolutionists, and by French and Germans settled in our own country, it is essentially barbaric and anti-republican.
Two had limbs blown off, but corpsmen reached them in time to stanch the bleeding and stick them in stasis bags to stabilize them until they reached the hospital.
Hastily, he tore the breechcloth from a Fighter corpse and wrapped it around the arm to stanch the flow of life fluid.