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staunching

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Example Sentences

"I have been weeping," she replied sweetly, staunching her wound with a lock of her long disheveled hair.

Nooh, no, calmly replied Tommy, staunching the wounds on his face.

In a few minutes he would be facing death, and now he was staunching a pin-prick.

He stopped staunching his wound and burst into a great roar of laughter which had no good humour in it.

One of his staff, Maj. Leigh, succeeded in reaching the wound and staunching the blood with a handkerchief.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to staunching, such as: arrest, avoid, bar, block, break, and check.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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