Read full poem →So be it; but the lopping hurts,
The graft takes tardily! Men stanch
Meantime with earth the bleeding branch.
Dictionary Entry
That which stanches or checks a flow.
In a Sentence
“The dam’s sturdy walls stanch the river’s flow during the flood.”
Origin
Middle English from Old French estanchier, ultimately from Latin stanchus ‘to stop’.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “stanch”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →"I stanch with ice my burning breast,
With silence balm my whirling brain.
Read full poem →Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine;
Stanch and strong the tendrils twine:
Though the frail ringlets thee deceive,
Read full poem →Has saved him. He would hardly value life
Unless his gift. My stanch friends wait. Go in--
You must go in to Charles!
Read full poem →Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk,
Stanch as hound, and fleet as hawk:
Think of this, and rise with day,
Read full poem →For, scarce a spear's length from his haunch,
Vindictive toiled the bloodhounds stanch;
Nor nearer might the dogs attain,