STANCHING Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

stanching

verb

variants or staunching

present participle of stanch

as in repressing

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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
Normally, this modifier gene suppresses the creation of a second kind of hemoglobin, typically made only during fetal development; repressing the gene prompts cells to start making the fetal form of hemoglobin again, which acts as a backup.

— Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

Definition of repressing

Verb

Shifting international conversation The new commitments come as some Haitian observers try to shift the conversation around the crisis beyond suppressing armed gangs to other challenges.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Planting fall cover crops improves soil by reducing compaction, preventing erosion, and suppressing weeds.

— Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 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

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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

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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
Reinhart’s vintage Elie Saab moment comes at a time when several high-profile stars are turning back the clock and looking to the runway from the early aughts and ’90s for their red carpet and project promotional tour stints.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 17 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

A lot of the fish will be suspending or relating to isolated objects off the bank.

— Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
The other four networks in the rotation — CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox — declined to replace CNN, suspending coverage for most of the week, an act of protest that meant a dearth of video images from the White House.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of suspending

Verb

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
And that was despite dealing with external noise stemming leading up to his tenure from when Wisconsin tried to block his transfer request.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of stemming

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