What is the meaning of Staunch?
Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.
- Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.
Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.
Strongly built; also, in good or strong condition.
- Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
Dependable, loyal, reliable, trustworthy.
Of a hunting dog: that can be depended on to pick up the scent of, or to mark, game.
Alternative spelling of stanch
That which stanches or checks a flow.
A plant or substance which stops the flow of blood; a styptic.
An act of stanching or stopping.
Synonym of afterdamp (“suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp”)
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”)
Source: wiktionary.org
- Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
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