stanching

verb

variants or staunching
present participle of stanch
as in repressing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stanching
  1. repressing
  2. suppressing
  3. squashing
  4. stunting
  5. turning back
  6. squelching
  7. suspending
  8. stemming
Verb
  • Egyptian authorities alternated over the decades between tolerating and repressing the group, which was permitted to field candidates in elections for brief periods.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • When elites are strong, dictators need to accommodate them, often by repressing outsiders to shield insiders from potential challenges.
    — José Kaire, The Conversation, 17 July 2026
Definition of repressing
Verb
  • Embracing uncertainty does not mean ignoring danger, suppressing disappointment or insisting that every setback is positive.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
  • In addition to suppressing screen tearing, the Pro upgrade adds color and luminance certification as well as HDR compatibility.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of suppressing
Verb
  • Instead of squashing a volume into an area, these universes seem to cram all the dimensions into a lone quantum point.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The east-side neighbors going to court join two other communities who have filed lawsuits in hopes of squashing developers' plans to spend millions of dollars on data centers.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of squashing
Verb
  • Even before the floods, malnutrition, child wasting and anaemia rates were high in Nepal, with one in four children nationwide affected by stunting.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
  • And the factors pushing people out of the labor force have implications beyond workers paying for everyday essentials, including stunting career trajectories and impacting long-term retirement savings.
    — Sarah Jackson Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of stunting
Verb
  • Tide turns back to franchises Then the tide started turning back toward familiar waters.
    — Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Once the company and its shareholders become accustomed to such a financial boost, an environment where individual guest spending sharply increases even when domestic park attendance is soft or steady, there’s likely no turning back.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of turning back
Verb
  • The Atlanta metro has been going back and forth between squelching heat and major storms.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 31 July 2026
  • Heat domes are sprawling areas of strong high pressure that act like a lid on the atmosphere, trapping heat underneath and squelching clouds and precipitation with their sinking air, resulting in thousands of excess deaths in Europe alone.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Definition of squelching
Verb
  • The draft also bars other federal departments, agencies, and officials from suspending a model’s development, deployment, or internal use.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • In contrast, the ad says Desmond fought to lower costs and supports suspending the gas tax.
    — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of suspending
Verb
  • As the man responsible for stemming the terrorization of the cat, stealing a bite of toddler ban-affle-gurt may be one of the only perks of early-morning parenthood left to me.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The company has shown signs of stemming the effects of cord-cutting, posting a rare gain in subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2025 and limiting its losses to just 21,000 subscribers in the second quarter of this year.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of stemming
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