stanch

IPA: stˈæntʃ

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.
Alternative spelling of staunch (“that which stanches; act of stanching”) [(obsolete) That which stanches or checks a flow.]

(transitive, archaic except poetic) 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 (a fire, anger, etc.); also, to quench or satisfy (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.

Archaic spelling of staunch. [Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.]

Examples of "stanch" in Sentences

He is hoping to stanch the bleeding.
I stanched the blood with a Band Aid.
Politically, Mr. Burnett is a stanch Republican.
Feds will try to stanch bleeding on F 35 process.
But our job is to stanch the flow of craziness, is it not
He proved signally unable to stanch Parma's inexorable advance, however.
I believe this is a move toward extremism that ignores the need for moderation to stanch the bleeding.
The US military is testing the use of foam injections as a way to stanch internal bleeding of soldiers.
Congress did nothing to stanch the meltdown in 2008 except borrow and print money at unprecedented rates.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the midst of a multiyear study evaluating ways to stanch the flow of unwanted species.