Stanches vs Staunches - What's the difference?
stanches | staunches |
(stanch)
To stop the flow of.
* Francis Bacon
To cease, as the flowing of blood.
* Bible, Luke viii. 44
To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
* Emerson
To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
That which stanches or checks.
A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
Strong and tight; sound; firm.
* Evelyn
Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast.
* Prior
Close; secret; private.
* John Locke
(staunch)
loyal, trustworthy, reliable, outstanding
* , Episode 16
dependable, persistent
* Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.
To stop the flow of (blood).
To stop, check, or deter an action.
* Somebody's got to staunch those press leaks!
As verbs the difference between stanches and staunches
is that stanches is third-person singular of stanch while staunches is third-person singular of staunch.stanches
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *stanch
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Alternative forms
* staunchVerb
(es)- 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.
Noun
(es)- (Knight)
Adjective
(er)- 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
Anagrams
* *staunches
English
Verb
(head)staunch
English
Alternative forms
* stanchAdjective
(er)- He's been a staunch supporter of mine through every election.
- he relished a glass of choice old wine in season as both nourishing and bloodmaking and possessing aperient virtues (notably a good burgundy which he was a staunch believer in)
