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6-letter words (3 found)

CHANTS,SNATCH,STANCH,

5-letter words (12 found)

CANST,CANTS,CHANT,CHATS,HANTS,NATCH,SCANT,SCATH,SNATH,TACHS,TANHS,THANS,

4-letter words (24 found)

ACTS,ANTS,CANS,CANT,CASH,CAST,CATS,CHAS,CHAT,HANT,HAST,HATS,NACH,NATS,SANT,SCAN,SCAT,SHAN,SHAT,TACH,TANH,TANS,TASH,THAN,

3-letter words (23 found)

ACH,ACT,AHS,ANS,ANT,ASH,ATS,CAN,CAT,CHA,HAN,HAS,HAT,NAH,NAS,NAT,NTH,SAC,SAN,SAT,SHA,TAN,TAS,

2-letter words (10 found)

AH,AN,AS,AT,CH,HA,NA,SH,ST,TA,

You can make 72 words from stanch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stanch

stanch

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stɑːn(t)ʃ/, /stæn(t)ʃ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /stæn(t)ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːntʃ, -æntʃ

Etymology 1

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.

Adjective

stanch (comparative stancher, superlative stanchest)

  1. Archaic spelling of staunch.

Adverb

stanch (comparative more stanch, superlative most stanch)

  1. (obsolete) Possibly strictly.

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)”).

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.

Verb

stanch (third-person singular simple present stanches, present participle stanching, simple past and past participle stanched) (especially American spelling)

  1. (transitive, archaic except poetic) To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
    1. To stop the flow of (blood); also, to stop (a wound) from bleeding.
    3. To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.
  2. (transitive) To check or stop, or deter (an action).
    1. To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); often followed by of: to relieve (someone's) pain.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To extinguish or put out (a fire, anger, etc.); also, to quench or satisfy (desire, hunger, thirst, etc.).
  4. (intransitive, also reflexive) Of bleeding: to stop.
  5. (intransitive, also reflexive, obsolete) Of an occurrence or other thing: to come to an end; to cease; also, of persons: to stop acting violently.
Usage notes

Stanch is more commonly used as the spelling of the verb compared to staunch, especially in the United States; while staunch is more common as the spelling of the adjective, with stanch now regarded as archaic. Prescriptively, some readers may assume that reversals of these preferences are incorrect.

Conjugation
Alternative forms
  • staunch
Derived terms
  • stanched (adjective)
  • stancher
  • stanching (adjective, noun)
Translations

Etymology 3

See staunch (etymology 3).

Noun

stanch (plural stanches)

  1. Alternative spelling of staunch (“that which stanches; act of stanching”)

Etymology 4

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

Noun

stanch (plural stanches)

  1. 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 forms
  • staunch
Translations

References

Further reading

  • Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Stanch”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC, page 2306, column 2: “A flood-gate for accumulating a head of water in a river to float boats over shallows, when it is allowed to escape.”

Anagrams

  • Chants, chanst, chants, snatch

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