Stanch is valid Scrabble Word

Is stanch a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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6 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for STANCH in dictionary:

VERB:

to stop the flowing of, as blood, also STAUNCH
stop or restrict (a flow of blood) from a wound
stop the flow of blood from (a wound).
stem the flow of (a liquid, esp blood)
To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.
To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
To cease, as the flowing of blood.
Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.
Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.
Close; secret; private.

To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
stop the flow of a liquid

NOUN:

That which stanches or checks.
A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.

ADJECTIVE:

firm, steadfast, also STAUNCH
very loyal and committed in attitude
(of a wall) of strong or firm construction
(of a ship) watertight
loyal and dependable

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to stop the flow of blood from

Words related to STANCH

stanchable17 stanched14 stancher13 stanchers14 stanches13 stanchest14 stanching15 stanchly16 staunch12

How to use STANCH in a sentence

He lay with his eyes closed while I strove to stanch the flow.
Outside the class of rank and fashion, his friends seem to have been leading politicians of the Liberal school, the stanch Whigs who passed the Reform Bill, to whom he was true.
Blanched from loss of blood before I could tie the vessel and stanch the bleeding, his leg suspended in our improvised splints, and on his way to make a splendid recovery.
Giles Peram was not a spy, and at that time he believed himself a stanch republican.
His son and servants, hearing the fall, came rushing into the room, raised him from the floor, and attempted to bind up and stanch the wound.
She had written to the Constable de Montmorency, a rival of the Guises and their foe though a stanch Catholic, to make haste to Orleans, where his presence would be required.
One of the workmen gave his handkerchief to bind it up and stanch the blood.
They are as stanch to the one party as old Nicholas to the other.
The majority of them were Dissenters, critics, not friends, of the Church of England, that stanch defender of the British monarchy.
Frank was a stanch friend of mine, and ready to recommend me whenever he got the chance.

In vain did Ridge strive to stanch the cruel outspurt.
His old tutor, long his friend, quiet and stanch, gazed unseen.
Willy had really a stanch vein in him, in spite of his gentleness and mildness.
And as a sure foundation for it all, he had a heart that was big and stanch.
He was waiting by the roadside when her stanch whites marched past him, and she reached the check out through the slats of the rack.
Those friends stanch and true, with whom I have held such royal fellowship when skies were chill and winds were cold, will not forget me, nor shall I become unfaithful to them.
Out of this he presently emerged, bearing on his shoulders a canoe, old and weather-beaten, but stanch, for it rode light as a feather on the stream.
He was a stanch advocate of civil service reform, although he left Congress before the legislation which accomplished that was adopted.
He was a most intelligent, faithful and stanch friend of the Indians during the remainder of his lifetime.
Most of the Irish people were stanch adherents of Catholicism, while some of the leading English Protestants in Ireland favored Irish nationality as strongly as did the Catholics.
She had fairly made room for him in her stanch, narrow New England heart.
A boy with a spirit less stanch than his might well have fled in a panic, leaving his companion to his death.
Scipio, a stanch Numidian, has gone to market with three asses loaded with cabbages and asparagus.
Better than this, it is the reflex of an earnest life and of a stanch, pure heart, challenging our admiration, and worthy of our emulation.
Stanch Federalists suffered all varieties of mortification.
Yet with it he combined the character of a practical politician and a stanch party man.
But he is a harmless, poor fool, save for the annoyance of his song, which he cannot stanch any more than the wind in the broken turrets.
The ranch house was a stanch one, built at a time when defense was to be considered as well as comfort, and was surrounded by fine cornfields.
We had sea room, and no lee shore to fear, and the ship was stanch, and no sailor can ask for more than that.
Anne gripped a handful of snow, hardly knowing what she did, and tried to stanch the blood that ran from an open cut on his temple.
Vale Turk! Would that our friends of the higher evolution were all as stanch as thou! THE BURIAL OF TURK.
A ship, however stanch, has her points of positive weakness.
Bassett had already designated a committee room where he would meet his followers and stanch adherents.

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