stanch
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Collins Definition
Verb
stanches, 3rd person singular present; staunching, present participle; stanched, past participle; staunched, past tense; stanching, present participle; staunches, 3rd person singular present; staunched, past participle; stanched, past tense;
/stônCH/,/stänCH/,
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stanches, 3rd person singular present; staunching, present participle; stanched, past participle; staunched, past tense; stanching, present participle; staunches, 3rd person singular present; staunched, past participle; stanched, past tense;
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Stop or restrict (a flow of blood) from a wound
- - colleagues may have saved her life by stanching the flow
- - the company did nothing to stanch the tide of rumors
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Stop the flow of blood from (a wound)
Web Definitions:
- stem: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide"
- (STANCHED) [ Lk 8:44] stopped or restrained from flowing.
- (of Sector 3560): A once benevolent being who was corrupted in body and mind through the pollution of his world, becoming a monstrous killer of the skies.^[32]
- an old spelling of staunch: firm; steadfast; loyal. Silver is using the term in a figurative sense of the nautical meaning watertight and seaworthy.
- Said of a vessel that is firm, strong, and unlikely to develop leaks.