Word of the Day: Stanch

Here’s an interesting word:

Stanch is a verb meaning to stop the flow of a liquid (such as the flow of blood from an injury or water from flowing into the hull of a vessel). The word is pronounced “staunch,” the spelling of which happens to be just like the sound of “stanch.” Am I making sense here?

While stanch means to make something watertight, staunch is an adjective describing something that has been stanched. They both sound the same.