staunch
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.
- 2.
Strongly built; also, in good or strong condition.
- 3.
(figuratively)Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.
Đồng nghĩa: constant, determined, persistent, steadfast, unwavering, unyielding, unswerving
- 4.
(figuratively)Dependable, loyal, reliable, trustworthy.
He’s been a staunch supporter of mine through every election.
- 5.
(figuratively, obsolete)Cautious, restrained.
Đồng nghĩa: guarded
- 6.
(figuratively)Stubborn, intransigent.
Đồng nghĩa: adamant, ardent, grim, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inflexible, irrefragable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful
Động từ
verb- 1.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative spelling of stanch.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(obsolete)That which stanches or checks a flow.
- 2.
(obsolete)An act of stanching or stopping.
- 3.
(mining) Synonym of afterdamp (“suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp”).
Đồng nghĩa: afterdamp
- 4.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative spelling of stanch (“a floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river”).
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ine-pro From Middle English staunch, staunchestanch, from estaunche, Old French estanche (firm; watertight) (modern étanche), a variant of estanc (a pond), from estanchier (modern étancher), possibly from one of the following: