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STAUNCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does staunch mean?
• STAUNCH (adjective)
The adjective STAUNCH has 1 sense:
1. firm and dependable especially in loyalty
Familiarity information: STAUNCH used as an adjective is very rare.
• STAUNCH (verb)
The verb STAUNCH has 1 sense:
1. stop the flow of a liquid
Familiarity information: STAUNCH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: staunchest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Firm and dependable especially in loyalty
Synonyms:
staunch; steadfast; unswerving
Context example:
unswerving allegiance
Similar:
constant (steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection)
Derivation:
staunchness (loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it staunches Past simple: staunched
Past participle: staunched
-ing form: staunching
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stop the flow of a liquid
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
stem the tide
Hypernyms (to "staunch" is one way to...):
check (arrest the motion (of something) abruptly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
It has been two years—not since December 9, 2017, to January 26, 2018—that have you enjoyed such staunch help from Mars in your career matters.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I know when a game's up, I do; and I know a lad that's staunch.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When I am a wife, I mean to be just as staunch myself; and I wish my friends in general would be so too.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Our provisions held out well, our ship was staunch, and our crew all in good health; but we lay in the utmost distress for water.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But Godfrey is a fine lad—a staunch lad.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
While I advanced in friendship and intimacy with Mr. Dick, I did not go backward in the favour of his staunch friend, my aunt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Pompey is the pride of the local draghounds—no very great flier, as his build will show, but a staunch hound on a scent.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You can also count on having staunch family support for home-related goals, so if you need a loan or an outright gift of cash, ask your parents for help this month.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I tried my canoe in a large pond, near my master’s house, and then corrected in it what was amiss; stopping all the chinks with Yahoos’ tallow, till I found it staunch, and able to bear me and my freight; and, when it was as complete as I could possibly make it, I had it drawn on a carriage very gently by Yahoos to the sea-side, under the conduct of the sorrel nag and another servant.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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