Synonym: halt, staunch, stem. Similar words: stanchion, sheet anchor, stance, lie at anchor, root and branch, distance, instance, substance. Meaning: [stɑːntʃ] 
v. stop the flow of a liquid.
v. stop the flow of a liquid. 
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1. Sophia stanched the blood with a cloth.
2. He stanched the leak of the boat with a piece of cloth.
3. Blood flowed from his wound has stanched.
4. He is a stanch supporter of the Democratic Party.
5. And at first I tried to stanch my panic by telling myself it was only that: a show of freedom.
6. One way to stanch inflation is to change the way the grade point average is calculated.
7. I thought it my duty to help stanch these leaks.
8. Cuttlebone can be used as a medicine to stanch bleeding.
9. Designed with spiral slide to stanch bleeding,(sentencedict.com) can slightly adjust the compression pressure.
10. In shock, I tied my sock around the worst-cut foot to try and stanch the flow of blood.
11. The lack of scientific basis for many of the worries doesn't stanch the flood.
12. The chief grocery of the city was conducted by one Manning , a stanch adherent of Brander, and one who felt honoured by the Senator's acquaintance.
13. And they are heightened demand will allow them to stanch recent price declines in the market.
14. Sadly, under GM those qualities were steadily diluted in an ill-judged attempt to stanch the losses that Saab made in all but one of the American firm's 20 years of stewardship.
15. If they behave like everyone else, how much will that stanch the passion of his support?
16. And there was only one misfire, near Kharkov, Ukraine, where a nuclear blast was unable to stanch a gas leak.
More similar words: stanchion, sheet anchor, stance, lie at anchor, root and branch, distance, instance, substance, constancy, for instance, assistance, resistance, stand a chance, equidistance, in the distance, circumstance, happenstance, circumstances, wind resistance, at the instance of, chemical substance, passive resistance, nonviolent resistance, antibiotic resistance, under the circumstances, electrical resistance, instantaneous, instantaneously, ranch, rancher.