Crossword-Solution: STANCH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stanch | v. t. | To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. |
| Stanch | v. t. | To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst. |
| Stanch | v. i. | To cease, as the flowing of blood. |
| Stanch | n. | That which stanches or checks. |
| Stanch | n. | A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release. |
| Stanch | v. t. | Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship. |
| Stanch | v. t. | Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent. |
| Stanch | v. t. | Close; secret; private. |
| Stanch | v. t. | To prop; to make stanch, or strong. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STANCH | anagram | CHANTS, SNATCH |
We have 33 clues for the answer “STANCH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| stem the flow of (a liquid, esp blood) | 1 answer |
| check flow | 1 answer |
| Use a tourniquet | 1 answer |
| Stop, as the flow of blood | 1 answer |
| Stop, as bleeding | 1 answer |
| Stop, as a liquid flow (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Stop, as a liquid flow | 1 answer |
| Stop, as a flow (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Halt the flow of, as tears or blood | 1 answer |
| Steadfast and true. | 1 answer |
| Stem the flow of | 1 answer |
| Stem the flow | 1 answer |
| Halt the flow of | 2 answers |
| Stop the bleeding | 2 answers |
| Stop a flow of blood | 2 answers |
| Stop, as a flow | 2 answers |
| STOP a flow | 3 answers |
| Stop the flow of | 4 answers |
| STOP flow | 4 answers |
| MAKE watertight | 7 answers |
| FLOW (ant.) | 11 answers |
| Put an end to | 27 answers |
| Stem | 37 answers |
| Dam | 40 answers |
| Plug | 41 answers |
| Cut off | 64 answers |
| Loyal | 69 answers |
| Steadfast | 76 answers |
| Fasten | 80 answers |
| Trustworthy | 80 answers |
| Block | 84 answers |
| Stop | 111 answers |
| Check | 138 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STANCH (5)
Antoinette, left alone with the duke, had tried to stanch his wound, and thus was she busied till he died; and then, hearing Rupert’s taunts, she had come forth to avenge him.
Our dates shall we slight, When their juice brings a cure for all sorrow? or care for the plight Of the palm’s self whose slow growth produced them? Not so! stem and branch Shall decay, nor be known in their place, while the palm-wine shall stanch Every wound of man’s spirit in winter.
She bathed his wrists, and washed his wounds, tearing strips from her skirt to bandage the horrid gash upon his breast in an effort to stanch the flow of lifeblood that welled forth with the man's every breath.
Here is a folio that's grim with age And yellow and green with mould; There's the breath of the sea on every page And the hint of a stanch ship's hold.
Six pairs of eyes followed the fascinating steel before which the cloth rippled and fell away, as water is cleft by the prow of a stanch little boat.
Quotes with STANCH (3)
You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants’ murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days “affords” us that precise association with god that redeems both us and our speck of world. God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, “the world in which you live, just as it is, and not otherwise.” “Insofar as he cultivat…
Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.
This is the way it ought to be!" said the Little Russian, returning. "Because, mark you, mother dear, a new heart is coming into existence, a new heart is growing up in life. All hearts are smitten in the conflict of interests, all are consumed with a blind greed, eaten up with envy, stricken, wounded, and dripping with filth, falsehood, and cowardice. All people are sick; they are afraid to live; they wander about as in a mist. Everyone feels only his own toothache. But lo, …
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).