estancar

Uncertain, compare Spanish estancar and Old French estanchier.

• Hyphenation: es‧tan‧car

estancar (first-person singular present indicative estanco, past participle estancado)

1. (transitive) to staunch (to stop the loss of blood)

   Synonym: vedar

2. (transitive, figuratively) to staunch (to stop, check, or deter an action)
   • 1906, Raul Brandão, Os Pobres‎:

     Os pobres são como os rios. Estancam a sêde da terra, fazem inchar as raizes e crescer as arvores; acarretam; móem o pão nos moinhos. Eil-a a vida da terra. Todas as cathedraes se construíram da sua dôr; sem elles a vida pararia.

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3. (intransitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to stop

   Synonym: parar

From Latin stagnum, cognate with Old French estanchier.

estancar (first-person singular present estanco, first-person singular preterite estanqué, past participle estancado)

1. (of water) detain, staunch, or hold back the flow of water.
2. suspend, or stop a project or business plan.
3. prohibit the free movement of merchandise

• c becomes qu before e.