Synonyms of stanch

stanch

verb

variants or staunch

as in to repress

Synonyms & Similar Words

• repress
• suppress
• turn back
• rein (in)
• squelch
• discontinue
• suspend
• impede
• hinder
• stem
• obstruct
• choke off
• cut off
• terminate
• stunt
• squash
• detain
• clog
• halt
• call
• end
• dam
• conclude
• stop
• snag
• block
• hold back
• balk
• hold
• check
• still
• baffle
• arrest
• stay
• pull up
• blockade
• draw up
• stall
• catch
• bottleneck
• bring up
• hold up
• fetch up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• continue
• keep (on)
• persist
• carry on
• run on
• proceed
• keep up
• move
• advance
• march
• go along
• follow through (with)
• progress
• push
• fare
• stir
• spur
• propel
• drive
• budge
• wend
• impel
• actuate
• goad

Examples of stanch in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The unprecedented federal funding given to school districts to stanch pandemic learning loss resulted in a boost in student achievement in some schools, a Harvard University study published Wednesday found. —Daniella Silva, NBC News, 26 June 2024

As someone called police, the doctor held Scott’s face mask on the wound to stanch the bleeding. —Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 29 Feb. 2024

What Netflix is doing with technology to retain subscribers to boost its fortunes — the company’s profit rose 20% to $5.4 billion last year — now is widening the divide with rival services still trying to stanch their losses. —Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 8 June 2024

During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Soviet Union provided money and arms to the Irish Republican Army, bedeviling officials in London, who scrambled to stanch the flow. —William C. Wohlforth, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021

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