staunch

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Synonyms: stanch

Antonyms: stanch

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Adjective

1. Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight. Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.
2. Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.
3. Strongly built; also, in good or strong condition.
4. Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
   • Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.
   • He’s been a staunch supporter of mine through every election.
5. Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
   • Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.
6. Dependable, loyal, reliable, trustworthy.
   • He’s been a staunch supporter of mine through every election.
7. Of a hunting dog: that can be depended on to pick up the scent of, or to mark, game.
8. Cautious, restrained.
9. Stubborn, intransigent.

Verb

1. Alternative spelling of stanch.

Noun

1. That which stanches or checks a flow. A plant or substance which stops the flow of blood; a styptic.
2. A plant or substance which stops the flow of blood; a styptic.
3. An act of stanching or stopping.
4. Synonym of afterdamp (“suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp”).

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of stanch (“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”).

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