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Definition
to stop the flow of a liquid (typically blood); or to stop anything that is harmful
- Straightway he made his pains to cease, and in the grievous wound stanched the black blood, and put courage into his heart.Book 16 (58% in)
- For I have this stark wound, and mine arm is thoroughly pierced with sharp pains, nor can my blood be stanched, and by the wound is my shoulder burdened, and I cannot hold my spear firm, nor go and fight against the enemy.Book 16 (56% in)
There are no more uses of "stanch" in The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers).
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