stanch

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• Received-Pronunciation: /stɑːn(t)ʃ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /stæn(t)ʃ/
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• General-American: stônch
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• General-American: stänch
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• General-American: stănch
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• General-American: -sh
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• General-American: /stɔn(t)ʃ/
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• General-American: /stɑn(t)ʃ/
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• General-American: /stæn(t)ʃ/
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• rhymes with -ɑːntʃ
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• rhymes with -æntʃ
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• CMU ARPABET: S T AE1 N CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English stanch, a variant of staunch, staunche (“(adjective) in good condition or repair; solidly made, firm; watertight; of a person or wound: not bleeding; certain; intact; (adverb) firmly, soundly”) [and other forms]; see further at staunch.

See staunch (etymology 3).

From Old French estanche (“pond; tank”), from estanc (“pond”) (modern French étang (“pond; lagoon”)), from estanchier (verb): see further at etymology 2.

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”)

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: спирам притока (spiram pritoka) — to stop the flow of (water or some other liquid)
• Finnish: tyrehdyttää — to stop the flow of (water or some other liquid)
• Hungarian: elállít — to stop the flow of (water or some other liquid)
• Irish: coisc — to stop the flow of (water or some other liquid)
• Macedonian: за́пре про́ток (zápre prótok) — to stop the flow of (water or some other liquid)
• Māori: pāpuni — to stop the flow of (water or some other liquid)
• Old English: forwrīþan — to stop the flow of (water or some other liquid)
• Russian: остана́вливать (ostanávlivatʹ) — to stop the flow of (water or some other liquid)
• Bulgarian: спирам притока (spiram pritoka) — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Dutch: stelpen — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Finnish: tyrehdyttää — to stop the flow of (blood)
• French: étancher — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Galician: estiñar — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Galician: estancar — to stop the flow of (blood)
• German: stillen — to stop the flow of (blood)
• German: stoppen — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Hungarian: elállít — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Irish: coisc — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Macedonian: за́пре крва́рење (zápre krvárenje) — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Māori: uka — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Māori: pāpuni — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Polish: zatamować — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Portuguese: estancar — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Russian: остана́вливать кровотече́ние (ostanávlivatʹ) — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Spanish: estancar — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Swedish: hejda — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Swedish: stämma — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Swedish: stoppa — to stop the flow of (blood)
• Finnish: suojata säältä — to make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof — see also weatherproof
• Finnish: estää — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• German: beenden — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• German: stoppen — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Irish: coisc — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Māori: pāpuni — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Polish: zastopować — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Polish: zatrzymać — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Portuguese: estancar — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Serbo-Croatian: зау̀ставити — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Serbo-Croatian: zaùstaviti — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Spanish: estancar — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Swedish: hejda — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Swedish: stoppa — to check or stop, or deter, (an action) — see also stop, deter
• Bulgarian: излеку́вам (izlekúvam) — to stop the progression of (an illness)
• Finnish: helpottaa — to stop the progression of (an illness)
• Finnish: tyrehtyä — of bleeding: to stop