stanch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stanch, stanche [and other forms], a variant of Middle English staunchen, staunche (“to stop the flow of blood, diarrhoea, or other bodily fluids; to alleviate, ease; to appease, assuage, satisfy; to cure; to overcome; to put an end to; to repress, suppress; of a river or stream: to stop flowing; of waters, wind, or weather: to become calm, subside; to extinguish or put out (a fire)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman estauncher, estaunchier, estanger, Old French estancher, estanchier (“to stop the flow of a liquid (blood, water, etc.); to make (something) watertight; to quench (thirst)”) (modern French étancher (“to stop the flow of a liquid; to make watertight; to quench (thirst); (figuratively) to assuage, quench, satiate”) [and other forms], possibly from one of the following:
* From Vulgar Latin *stagnicāre, from Latin stāgnum (“piece of standing water, pond; fen, swamp”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂g- (“to drip; to seep”).
* From Vulgar Latin *stānticāre, from *stānticus (“tired”), from Latin stāns, stāntis (“standing; remaining, staying”). Stāns is the present active participle of stō (“to stand; to remain, stay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”).
Etymology 2 sense 1.2 (“to make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof”) is derived from French étancher (“to stop water from flowing, make watertight”), from Old French estanchier (verb): see above.
Cognates
* Catalan estancar (“to hold up, block, halt (something); to come to a standstill; to stagnate”)
* Galician estancar (“to stop (the flow of blood, water, etc.)”)
* Italian stancare (“to tire out”)
* Occitan estancar
* Portuguese estancar (“to stop (the flow of blood); to stop (an action); to come to a standstill; to exhaust, weary”)
* Spanish estancar (“to stop (the flow of water, etc.); to stop (an action); to stagnate”)
Inflected forms:
form: stanches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stanching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stanched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stanched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: stanch
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: stanch
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: stanched
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: stanch
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: stanchest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: stanched
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: stanchedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: stanches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stancheth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: stanched
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: stanch
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: stanched
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: stanch
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: stanched
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: stanch
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: stanching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stanched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: staunch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
pos: verb
tags: US
especially
poetic
transitive
examples: I will couer the depe vpon him, I will ſtaunch his floudes, and the greate waters ſhalbe reſtrayned.
gloss: To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
pos: verb
tags: US
especially
poetic
transitive
examples: A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
[A] hẽnes [henne's] brayne is beſt: whiche (as Auicen ſaith) ſtancheth bledynge at yͤ noſe.
It [rhubarb] is good againſt ſpitting of bloud, and ſtancheth it, out of vvhat part ſoeuer it runne.
Hallovved be thou Veruein, as thou grovveſt on the ground, / For in the mount of Caluary there thou vvas firſt found: / Thou healedſt our Sauiour Ieſus Chriſt, and ſtanchedſt his bleeding vvound: / In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoſt, I take thee frõ the ground.
Bloud is ſtanched diuers vvayes. […] As Iron, or a Stone laid to the necke doth ſtanch the Bleeding at the Noſe; Alſo it hath beene tried, that the Teſticles, being put into ſharpe Vinegar, hath made a ſudden Receſſe of the Spirits, and ſtanched Bloud.
Touched in the battle by the hostile reed, / Shouldst thou (but Heaven avert it!) shouldst thou bleed; / To stanch the wounds, my finest lawn I'd tear, / Wash them with tears, and wipe them with my hair; […]
Novv ſeek ſome skilful Hand vvhoſe povv'rful Art / May ſtanch th' Effuſion and extract the Dart.
He that has not uſurp'd the name of man, / Does all, and deems too little, all he can, / T' aſſuage the throbbings of the feſter'd part, / And ſtaunch the bleedings of a broken heart; […]
[T]he iron head of a square cross-bow bolt disengaged itself from the wound, the bleeding was staunched, the wound was closed, and the dying man was, within the quarter of an hour, walking upon the ramparts, […]
Then came the hermit out and bare him in, / There stanch'd his wound; […]
Dust stanched the wet and naked heads of the scalped who with the fringe of hair below their wounds and tonsured to the bone now lay like maimed and naked monks in the bloodslaked dust and everywhere the dying groaned and gibbered and horses lay screaming.
Mistakes such as a patient's near suffocation from a sponge that Sims forgot to remove from his mouth and Sims's failure to stanch a patient's bleeding from the carotid artery were also given short shrift.
gloss: To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
pos: verb
tags: US
especially
poetic
transitive
examples: His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow-tower, when snow should fall; […]
gloss: To check or stop, or deter (an action).
pos: verb
tags: US
especially
transitive
examples: [W]hy ſhould a man refuſe the glad tydings of ſalutation, or ſtop his eares at the voyce of the skilfull charmer, becauſe the meſſenger that brings the tydings, is ouertaken vvith ſome knovvne ſinne? Or becauſe hee that charmeth, ſtancheth not the iſſue of his ovvne corruption?
[T]heir feud would be stanched by the death of one, or probably both, of the villains, […]
Beijing devotes immense resources to restricting access for and stanching scrutiny from international groups and reporters.
gloss: To check or stop, or deter (an action).
pos: verb
tags: US
especially
transitive
examples: It [squill] ſtancheth the ache of the ſtomack⸝ it helpeth digeſtion⸝ and maketh a man well colored.
The water of the ſame [angelica root], in a colde cauſe, is good to be layd on places diſeaſed with the Goute and Sciatica. For it ſtancheth the pain, and melteth a waye the tough humours that are gathered togither.
gloss: To extinguish or put out (as a fire, anger, etc.); also, to quench or satisfy (as desire, hunger, thirst, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: US
especially
obsolete
transitive
examples: [A]s an angry Cur / Snarles vvhile he feeds, ſo vvill I ſeize and ſtanch / The hunger of my love on this proud beauty, / And leave the ſcraps for Slaves.
gloss: Of bleeding: to stop.
pos: verb
tags: US
also
especially
intransitive
reflexive
examples: And a woman hauing an iſſue of blood twelue yeres, which had ſpent all her liuing vpon Phiſitions, neither could be healed of any, / Came behinde him [Jesus], and touched the border of his garment: and immediatly her iſſue of blood ſtanched.
[G]iving a dram and a half of Lapis Prunellæ in cold VVater, preſently the blood ſtanched vvhen the ſame and other Medicines could not formerly do it.
gloss: Of an occurrence or other thing: to come to an end; to cease; also, of persons: to stop acting violently.
pos: verb
tags: US
also
especially
intransitive
obsolete
reflexive
Derived words: stanchable
stanched
stancher
stanching
stanchless
unstanchable
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: спирам притока
roman: spiram pritoka
lang: Finnish
word: tyrehdyttää
lang: Hungarian
word: elállít
lang: Irish
word: coisc
lang: Macedonian
word: за́пре про́ток
roman: zápre prótok
lang: Māori
word: pāpuni
lang: Old English
word: forwrīþan
lang: Russian
word: остана́вливать
roman: ostanávlivatʹ
lang: Finnish
word: estää
lang: German
word: beenden
lang: German
word: stoppen
lang: Irish
word: coisc
lang: Māori
word: pāpuni
lang: Polish
word: zastopować
lang: Polish
word: zatrzymać
lang: Portuguese
word: estancar
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зау̀ставити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zaùstaviti
lang: Spanish
word: estancar
lang: Swedish
word: hejda
lang: Swedish
word: stoppa