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Louie kept his hand on Phil's head, stanching the bleeding.† (source)
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He knew he couldn't overpower Woody, so he told him that he needed to change the paper towel stanching his wound.† (source)
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The sole question that remained was how best to stanch the wound.† (source)
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Right now, in surgery, the doctors have to remove my spleen, insert a new tube to drain my collapsed lung, and stanch whatever else might be causing the internal bleeding.† (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 ached for him even more without Manolito in my arms to stanch the yearning.† (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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Her nosebleed was stanched with gauze, her punctured lip was cleansed.† (source)
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(Getty Images) move that forces President Kennedy to backpedal publicly on the issue of direct U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, a war that he believes is vital to stanching the worldwide spread of communism† (source)
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A grievous wound I bear, and sharpest pangs My arm assail, nor may the blood he stanch'd: The pain weighs down my shoulder; and my hand Hath lost its pow'r to fight, or grasp my spear.† (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)unstanched = not stopped (typically of bleeding)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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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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Cold water and a bandage had finally stanched the blood, though not the old man's outrage.† (source)
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Not until later, after the tall soldier had battered her with his rifle and left with his lumpy, quiet friend, after she had scoured her skin and hair with detergents meant for the walls and the tile floors, after stanching the blood with cotton and gauze and wiping the steam from the bathroom mirror, did Lourdes try to read what he had carved.† (source)
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He said, and passing his supporting hand Beneath his breast, the wounded warrior led Within the tent; th' attendant saw, and spread The ox-hide couch; then as he lay reclin'd, Patroclus, with his dagger, from the thigh Cut out the biting shaft; and from the wound With tepid water cleans'd the clotted blood; Then, pounded in his hands, a root applied Astringent, anodyne, which all his pain Allay'd; the wound was dried, and stanch'd the blood.† (source)
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