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Definition of Stanch

Stanch
Stanch Stanch, n. 1. That which stanches or checks. [Obs.] 2. A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release. --Knight.
Stanch
Stanch Stanch, v. i. To cease, as the flowing of blood. Immediately her issue of blood stanched. --Luke viii. 44.
Stanch
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.

Meaning of Stanch from wikipedia

- 2007. Retrieved March 22, 2010. Wright 2008: 'In December, in order to stanch the flow of criticism, Zawahiri boldly initiated a virtual town-hall meeting...
- Sam S. Millard (also known as Elid Stanch) was a filmmaker of the 1920s through the 1950s and 1960s. Nicknamed "Steamship", he was one of the Forty Thieves...
- from estancar "hold back a current of water," from V.L. *stanticare (see stanch). But others say the Port. word is the source of the Indian ones. Gujarati...
- advertising and circulation, as many papers had to retrench operations to stanch the losses. Worldwide annual revenue approached $100 billion in 2005–7,...
- Gullapalli, Diya (September 20, 2008). "Bailout of Money Funds Seems to Stanch Outflow". The Wall Street Journal. Nocera, Joe (October 1, 2008). "As Crisis...
- doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105559. ISSN 0168-1591. Retrieved May 26, 2023. Stancher, G.; Rugani, R.; Regolin, L.; Vallortigara, G. (2015). "Numerical discrimination...
- & Laughlin Steel Company in 1970. He had to sell subsidiaries to try to stanch the ensuing financial hemorrhage. After antitrust issues arose, bankers...
- movement, while endeavoring to deflect its successes, blunt its mischief and stanch the wounds it was inflicting." This explanation for Zhou's elusiveness was...
- died. Rather than wait for a doctor, Percy sat her in a bath of ice to stanch the bleeding, an act the doctor later told him saved her life. All was not...
- early Christian era, folk legend stated that V. officinalis was used to stanch Jesus' wounds after his removal from the cross. It was consequently called...