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单词 staunch
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staunch

adjective
/stɔːntʃ/
/stɔːntʃ/
(comparative stauncher, superlative staunchest)
You can also use more staunch and most staunch.
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  1. always showing strong support in your opinions and attitude synonym faithful
    • a staunch supporter of the monarchy
    • one of the president’s staunchest allies
    • a staunch Catholic
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryStaunch is used with these nouns:
    • advocate
    • ally
    • believer
    • …
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    Word Originadjective and adverb late Middle English (in the sense ‘watertight’): from Old French estanche, feminine of estanc, from a Romance base meaning ‘dried up, weary’. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent.

staunch

verb
/stɔːntʃ/
/stɔːntʃ/
(also stanch especially in North American English)
(formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they staunch
/stɔːntʃ/
/stɔːntʃ/
he / she / it staunches
/ˈstɔːntʃɪz/
/ˈstɔːntʃɪz/
past simple staunched
/stɔːntʃt/
/stɔːntʃt/
past participle staunched
/stɔːntʃt/
/stɔːntʃt/
-ing form staunching
/ˈstɔːntʃɪŋ/
/ˈstɔːntʃɪŋ/
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  1. staunch something to stop the flow of something, especially blood
    • Customs officers are struggling to staunch the flow of illegal imports.
    • He bound his thigh firmly to staunch the flow of blood.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryStaunch is used with these nouns as the object:
    • bleeding
    • flow
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    Word Originverb Middle English: from Old French estanchier, from the base of the adjective staunch.
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