Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to staunch
Participle: staunched
Gerund: staunching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | staunch |
| you | staunch |
| he;she;it | staunches |
| we | staunch |
| you | staunch |
| they | staunch |
Perfect
| I | have staunched |
| you | have staunched |
| he;she;it | has staunched |
| we | have staunched |
| you | have staunched |
| they | have staunched |
Past
| I | staunched |
| you | staunched |
| he;she;it | staunched |
| we | staunched |
| you | staunched |
| they | staunched |
Pluperfect
| I | had staunched |
| you | had staunched |
| he;she;it | had staunched |
| we | had staunched |
| you | had staunched |
| they | had staunched |
Future
| I | will staunch |
| you | will staunch |
| he;she;it | will staunch |
| we | will staunch |
| you | will staunch |
| they | will staunch |
Future Perfect
| I | will have staunched |
| you | will have staunched |
| he;she;it | will have staunched |
| we | will have staunched |
| you | will have staunched |
| they | will have staunched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | staunch |
| you | staunch |
| he;she;it | staunch |
| we | staunch |
| you | staunch |
| they | staunch |
Perfect
| I | have staunched |
| you | have staunched |
| he;she;it | have staunched |
| we | have staunched |
| you | have staunched |
| they | have staunched |
Imperfect
| I | staunched |
| you | staunched |
| he;she;it | staunched |
| we | staunched |
| you | staunched |
| they | staunched |
Pluperfect
| I | had staunched |
| you | had staunched |
| he;she;it | had staunched |
| we | had staunched |
| you | had staunched |
| they | had staunched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would staunch |
| you | would staunch |
| he;she;it | would staunch |
| we | would staunch |
| you | would staunch |
| they | would staunch |
Perfect
| I | would have staunched |
| you | would have staunched |
| he;she;it | would have staunched |
| we | would have staunched |
| you | would have staunched |
| they | would have staunched |
Imperative
| you | staunch |
| we | Let's staunch |
| you | staunch |
Verbs conjugated like 'staunch'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'staunch'
stanch,
craunch,
faunch,
flaunch,
gaunch,
graunch,
haunch,
launch,
maunch,
paunch,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to cease to proceed or act
- absist, belay, blin, break off, cease, cess, cheese it, come to an end, desist, discontinue, forbear, halt, have done with, hold, leave off, let up, rest, stanch, stay, stop, surcease, terminate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From 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 (verb) [and other forms]; see further at etymology 1 and at stanch.
Sample Sentences
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I will couer the depe vpon him, I will ſtaunch his floudes, and the greate waters ſhalbe reſtrayned. [1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Ezechiel xxxj:[15], folio lxviij, recto, column 2:]
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He that has not uſurp'd the name of man, / Does all, and deems too little, all he can, / T' aſſuage the throbbings of the feſter'd part, / And ſtaunch the bleedings of a broken heart; […] [1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 274:]
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[T]he iron head of a square cross-bow bolt disengaged itself from the wound, the bleeding was staunched, the wound was closed, and the dying man was, within the quarter of an hour, walking upon the ramparts, […] [1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 178:]