0 past simple and past participle of staunch
1 to stop something happening, or to stop liquid, especially blood, from flowing out:
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.
That is something that has to be staunched.
The leak was entirely staunched by the following morning.
During those 12 years much of the nation's life blood that has been poured upon our highways could have been staunched and saved.
In particular, the deregistration of so many commons, which is taking place at an alarming rate, is a haemorrhage which must be staunched most urgently.
A year later the bleeding has not been staunched.
If, instead of abandoning the pledge, they had renewed it, that would have been the one thing that would have staunched the flow coming into this country.
