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stanch
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    He held one hand at his midsection to stanch the flow.†  (source)
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    One arm is splayed out uselessly while she paws at her shoulder with the other, trying to stanch the sluggish pulse of blood draining out of her.†  (source)
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    Hoping to stanch my decline, I resolved to rest, gobble ibuprofen, and force down as many calories as possible in that time.†  (source)
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    I let every juicy morsel of anger and bitterness well up inside me, making no attempt to stanch any of it.†  (source)
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    Cold water and a bandage had finally stanched the blood, though not the old man's outrage.†  (source)
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    Louie kept his hand on Phil's head, stanching the bleeding.†  (source)
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    It is the feeling of drowning in a big hot open gutter, of crawling inside an undressed, unstanched wound that has never been cauterized.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstanched means not and reverses the meaning of stanched. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And never had Duane bestrode a gamer, swifter, stancher beast.†  (source)
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    Stanch'd is the blood, and in the bottom stands: The steel, but scarcely touch'd with tender hands, Moves up, and follows of its own accord, And health and vigor are at once restor'd.†  (source)
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    The doctor had hitherto been a stanch Whig; but now he exerted all his energies for the defeat of Mr. Sands.†  (source)
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    She did, he said, make certain signs upon the wound, and repeated certain mysterious words, which he blessed God he understood not, when the iron head of a square cross-bow bolt disengaged itself from the wound, the bleeding was stanched, the wound was closed, and the dying man was, within a quarter of an hour, walking upon the ramparts, and assisting the witness in managing a mangonel, or machine for hurling stones.†  (source)
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    Down below me, Boney put her fingers between her eyebrows as if stanching a headache.†  (source)
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    I'll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell, and as leaky as an unstanched wench.†  (source)
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