staunchness
staunch
verb[ T ]
uk /stɔːntʃ/ us /stɑːntʃ/(US alsostanch)
to stop something happening, or to stop liquid, especially blood, from flowing out: 制止;止住（尤指出血）
The country's asylum laws were amended to staunch the flow/flood of economic migrants.该国的避难法进行了修订，以阻止经济移民的洪流。
Mike pressed hard on the wound and staunched the flow of blood.迈克使劲儿压住伤口，止住了出血。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing something to end
abandon
abandonment
all good things (must) come to an endidiom
and have done with itidiom
be over the humpidiom
cure
give over
halt
hang
jack something in
kill something stone-deadidiom
lay
lid
lift
snap
snuff something out
stamp on something
stamp something out
stanch
stem

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Movement of liquids

staunch | American Dictionary

staunch
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/stɔntʃ, stɑntʃ/

staunchadjective[-er/-est only] (LOYAL)

strongly loyal to a person, organization, or set of beliefs or opinions:
a staunch defender of free speech

staunchly

adverbus/ˈstɔntʃ·li, ˈstɑntʃ-/
She staunchly supports the party’s candidates.
staunch
verb[ T ]
us/stɔntʃ, stɑntʃ/(alsostanch)

staunchverb[T] (STOP)

to stop liquid, esp. blood, from flowing out:
Mike pressed hard on the wound and staunched the flow of blood.
To staunch is also to keep something from continuing:
The company abandoned the plan to staunch the departure of more managers.

staunch | Business English

staunch
adjective
uk /stɔːnʃ/us
always loyal in supporting a person, organization, or set of beliefs:
She has remained a staunch friend and ally.
staunch supporter/defenderHe is a staunch supporter of free trade.

Examples of staunch

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Nevertheless, even the staunchest advocates of non-legal solutions to truancy seem to accept that legal procedures must continue to be available.
Blood was collected in a 1.6 ml microcentrifuge tube and the flow then staunched.
Furthermore, by bringing the industry under greater government control, the widespread illegal cutting of trees for charcoal and evasion of fees could hopefully be staunched.
The staunchest critics of the database project have argued that this is a violation of research ethics and insist on obtaining informed consent.
People's staunchest beliefs about right and wrong are free-floating in the sense defined above.
Even some of the staunchest advocates of disarmament supported the development of air power, and there was to be no international agreement on this newest type of military force.
Rejecting an evolutionary perspective, though, is perfectly compatible with being a staunch proponent of innateness and internal representation models of cognition.
The staunch antiinterventionist line adopted by important sections of industry and the clergy undermined the potential for consensus over reform.
He was a staunch defender of church autonomy and a fierce opponent of secularization of church lands and state control over church education.
A staunch representative of the 'unreconstructed right wing', his death seemed a symbolic portent for the decision that was to follow.
A staunch defender of divine design might initially be willing to tolerate these two conditions.
The doctrine of middle knowledge, on the other hand, requires a staunch realism about the hypothetical.
Nevertheless, these examples of staunch moral values amongst a wide range of people were questionably isolated occurrences, rather than a general trend.
Staunch libertarians might dig their heels in here and endorse the extreme version of the basic moral difference thesis.
As 'swing continuants ', they are expected to come and go more freely than stauncher 'base ' continuants and non-continuants.
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