Usually means: Stop or restrict flow, usually blood.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. stanch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stanch, stanch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stanch, stanch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stanch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stanch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stanch, stanch: Wordnik
  7. stanch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stanch: Wiktionary
  9. stanch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stanch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stanch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stanch: Dictionary.com
  13. stanch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. stanch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Stanch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. stanch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. stanch: Rhymezone
  18. Stanch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. stanch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. stanch: Free Dictionary
  21. stanch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. stanch: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stanch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stanch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stanch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Stanch: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See stancher as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (obsolete) Possibly strictly.
verb:  (transitive, archaic except poetic) To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
verb:  To stop the flow of (blood); also, to stop (a wound) from bleeding.
verb:  To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.
verb:  (transitive) To check or stop, or deter (an action).
verb:  To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); often followed by of: to relieve (someone's) pain.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To extinguish or put out (a fire, anger, etc.); also, to quench or satisfy (desire, hunger, thirst, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, also reflexive) Of bleeding: to stop.
verb:  (intransitive, also reflexive, obsolete) Of an occurrence or other thing: to come to an end; to cease; also, of persons: to stop acting violently.
noun:  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.
adjective:  Archaic spelling of staunch. [Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.]
noun:  Alternative spelling of staunch (“that which stanches; act of stanching”) [(obsolete) That which stanches or checks a flow.]

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