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stanch
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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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    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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    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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    "Tell me, if scribes value consistency so much," Alessandro interrupted, to stanch the monologue before Orfeo got on to the luminous sap, "then why not get one of those new machines, typewriters, and every letter will be exactly the same?"†  (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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    She had worked with so much imagination—the inventive quality, which she lacked, being supplied by the problem itself—that no instructed visitor would have dreamed that the light, graceful filagree work at a window was a strong, unyielding end of a tether, that the pieces reflecting modern tubular tendencies were stancher than the massive creations of the Edwardians—even the flowers lay in iron fingers and every casual ornament and fixture was as necessary as a girder in a skyscraper.†  (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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    He held one hand at his midsection to stanch the flow.†  (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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