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
  • There has also been a steady rise in governments repressing people outside of their borders.
    — Mary Lind, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of repressing
Verb
  • The regime remains capable of suppressing any organized resistance in the country, but the growing disaffection of the elite threatens to weaken the state from within.
    — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
  • When the neurotoxin stops suppressing nerve signals to those muscles, the lines return.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of suppressing
Verb
  • Netanyahu has triumphed in squashing Israeli support for Palestinian national aspirations and normalizing military confrontation with Iran.
    — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of squashing
Verb
  • Underinvesting in cybersecurity, or restricting who benefits from those investments, is a recipe for stunting future economic growth and innovation.
    — Michael Miebach, Time, 30 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of stunting
Verb
  • However, investors on Tuesday are turning back to semiconductors and power, electrical equipment, and liquid cooling providers like Eaton , which posted strong quarterly results and raised its full-year outlook.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Tide turns back to franchises Then the tide started turning back toward familiar waters.
    — Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 4 Oct. 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
  • In May 2025, Miller said the administration was actively considering suspending the constitutional mechanism that allows detainees to challenge their confinement in court.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Its arrival split men's professional golf, with the PGA Tour suspending members who competed in LIV events.
    — Matthew Tan, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of suspending
Verb
  • Roy says renter protections will be vital to stemming the city’s homelessness crisis.
    — Times staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
  • An Elgin man faces 11 felony charges stemming the August shooting of a woman in Aurora.
    — Daily Herald, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of stemming
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