Usually means: Stopping the flow of blood.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. staunching: Merriam-Webster
  2. staunching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. staunching: Vocabulary.com
  4. staunching: Wordnik
  5. staunching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. staunching: Wiktionary
  7. staunching: Dictionary.com
  8. staunching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. staunching: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. staunching: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. staunching: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. staunching: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Staunching: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See staunch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (staunching)

noun:  The act by which something is staunched or stopped.
noun:  (obsolete) A stanchion.

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