How to pronounce “stanch”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Archaic spelling of staunch.
• [Adverb]
• (obsolete) Possibly strictly.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, poetic, otherwise archaic) To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
• (transitive) To check or stop, or deter (an action).
• (transitive, obsolete) To extinguish or put out (as a fire, anger, etc.); also, to quench or satisfy (as desire, hunger, thirst, etc.).
• (intransitive, also reflexive) Of bleeding: to stop.
• (intransitive, also reflexive, obsolete) Of an occurrence or other thing: to come to an end; to cease; also, of persons: to stop acting violently.
• [Noun]
• Alternative spelling of staunch (“that which stanches; act of stanching”).

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