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"Stanch" is the American spelling of "staunch". Both spellings exist in both countries, and both are correct English — American writers just lean towards stanch, British writers towards staunch. The main meaning is to stop a liquid from flowing out, and above all blood. If someone is cut, you press a cloth on the wound to stanch the bleeding. This is the sense you will meet in stories, in news about accidents, and in anything medical. "He used his shirt to stanch the blood." From there, English stretched it. Anything that is flowing out and that you want to stop can be stanched: money leaving a company, people leaving a country, information leaking to newspapers. "The government could not stanch the flow of money out of the banks." This use is quite common in serious writing about business and , and it always carries a small picture of a wound with it — it suggests damage, and something being lost that should not be. A note on level: this is a formal, written word. In everyday speech people say "stop the bleeding". If you say "stanch" to a friend, it will sound like you are reading from a book — which is fine in an essay and a little odd at lunch. And one warning about the other word. There is a separate adjective "staunch", as in "a staunch supporter" — meaning strong and loyal, someone who never changes side. That one is spelled staunch, is pronounced with the same "aw" sound, and comes from the same root, but is a different word from the verb here. Do not let the shared spelling make you mix the loyal friend with the stopped blood.
止住（血）；堵住（外流）。最常見的是「止血」。用在錢、人、消息外流時，就是「遏止…外流」。這個字書面語，日常口語通常直接說 stop the bleeding。
組成From Middle English stanch, a variant of staunch, which came from Old French estanchier, meaning to stop a flow or to dry up. The Old French and the English forms have sat side by side for hundreds of years, which is why English ended up keeping both spellings instead of choosing one.
同家族的字
- staunchthe other spelling of this same word — and also the related adjective meaning firmly loyal
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
stanchadv詞源 1/stɑːn(t)ʃ/
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obsoletePossibly strictly.
- But you vvill loſe your Labour, and vvhat is more, their Love and Reverence too, if they can receive from others, vvhat you deny them. This is to be kept very ſtanch, and carefully to be vvatched.
stanchverb詞源 2/stɑːn(t)ʃ/
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To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
- I will couer the depe vpon him, I will ſtaunch his floudes, and the greate waters ſhalbe reſtrayned.
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To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
- A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
- [A] hẽnes [henne's] brayne is beſt: whiche (as Auicen ſaith) ſtancheth bledynge at yͤ noſe.
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To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).
- His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow-tower, when snow should fall; […]
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To check or stop, or deter (an action).
- [W]hy ſhould a man refuſe the glad tydings of ſalutation, or ſtop his eares at the voyce of the skilfull charmer, becauſe the meſſenger that brings the tydings, is ouertaken vvith ſome knovvne ſinne? Or becauſe hee that charmeth, ſtancheth not the iſſue of his ovvne corruption?
- [T]heir feud would be stanched by the death of one, or probably both, of the villains, […]
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To check or stop, or deter (an action).
- It [squill] ſtancheth the ache of the ſtomack⸝ it helpeth digeſtion⸝ and maketh a man well colored.
- The water of the ſame [angelica root], in a colde cauſe, is good to be layd on places diſeaſed with the Goute and Sciatica. For it ſtancheth the pain, and melteth a waye the tough humours that are gathered togither.
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obsoleteTo extinguish or put out (as a fire, anger, etc.); also, to quench or satisfy (as desire, hunger, thirst, etc.).
- [A]s an angry Cur / Snarles vvhile he feeds, ſo vvill I ſeize and ſtanch / The hunger of my love on this proud beauty, / And leave the ſcraps for Slaves.
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Of bleeding: to stop.
- And a woman hauing an iſſue of blood twelue yeres, which had ſpent all her liuing vpon Phiſitions, neither could be healed of any, / Came behinde him [Jesus], and touched the border of his garment: and immediatly her iſſue of blood ſtanched.
- [G]iving a dram and a half of Lapis Prunellæ in cold VVater, preſently the blood ſtanched vvhen the ſame and other Medicines could not formerly do it.
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obsoleteOf an occurrence or other thing: to come to an end; to cease; also, of persons: to stop acting violently.
stanchnoun詞源 4/stɑːn(t)ʃ/
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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.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。