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Definition

to stop the flow of a liquid (typically blood); or to stop anything that is harmful

stanch the blood flow

He ripped the sleeve again, used it to stanch the wound.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
He held one hand at his midsection to stanch the flow.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Your father's lands are bleeding, and I have neither the strength nor the time to stanch the wounds.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
The plump, efficient healers gently pulled Max away while they cut away David's shirt and worked quickly to stanch the bleeding.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
Major Rathbone drips blood on the carpet, trying to stanch the flow by holding tight to the injured arm.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
My legs are running with blood—I had to stanch the flow with Mum's dressing gown.
Louise Rennison -- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
I have my sore wound, all my length of arm a-throb with lancing pain; the flow of blood cannot be stanched; my shoulder's heavy with it.
Homer -- The Iliad
His hand trembles; it is not a very good job, and he cuts himself three or four times, stanching the blood with the cold water until it stops.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
Is the lad stanch, and of the right blood?
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
I let every juicy morsel of anger and bitterness well up inside me, making no attempt to stanch any of it.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky
The doctor had hitherto been a stanch Whig; but now he exerted all his energies for the defeat of Mr. Sands.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The sole question that remained was how best to stanch the wound.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
Cold water and a bandage had finally stanched the blood, though not the old man's outrage.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Moving him was out of the question until the flow was stanched.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
I ached for him even more without Manolito in my arms to stanch the yearning.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
Hoping to stanch my decline, I resolved to rest, gobble ibuprofen, and force down as many calories as possible in that time.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
Down below me, Boney put her fingers between her eyebrows as if stanching a headache.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
They had no tools to stanch a fire, and no plan at all for what they might do to put out a chemical inferno.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

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