Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
Southern England
- RP:
- GA:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Archaic spelling of staunch.
Adverbi
- (obsolete) Possibly strictly.
Verbi
- (transitive, poetic, otherwise archaic) To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
- To stop the flow of (blood); also, to stop (a wound) from bleeding.
- To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.
- (transitive) To check or stop, or deter (an action).
- To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); often followed by of: to relieve (someone's) pain.
- (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.
Substantiivi
- Alternative spelling of staunch (“that which stanches; act of stanching”).
- A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river.
Esimerkit
- A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
- Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.
- Immediately her issue of blood stanched.
- His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow tower when snow should fall.
- a stanch ship
- One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
- a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent
- In politics I hear you're stanch.
- this to be kept stanch
- Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood, but jumped up and ran on, with a warm trickle down my cheek and chin.
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