Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not stanched; not stopped, as blood.
  • Unsatisfied; unsated.
  • Not made stanch or tight.

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Examples

  • This continued and still largely unstanched flow of narcotics into the U.S. is only part of the problem.

    Who David Rieff 2010

  • The deepest gash on her wrist, raw and unstanched, continued to empty itself in time with her pulse.

    In This Way I Was Saved Brian DeLeeuw 2009

  • I regret to say that she is still unhappy; her wounds unstanched, her wrongs unforgiven.

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • I’ll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell, and as leaky as an unstanched wench.

    Act I. Scene I. The Tempest 1914

  • I’ll warrant him for drowning though the ship were no stronger than a nut-shell and as leaky as an unstanched wench.

    Act I. Scene I 1909

  • Her blue eyes were on fire, and two hot tears stood in them, unstanched.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

  • Her blue eyes were on fire, and two hot tears stood in them, unstanched.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

  • The Bonapartes were no common men -- and it was no common blood that trickled unstanched ten years later into the sand of the African veldt, leaving the world the poorer of one of its greatest races.

    Dross Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • I regret to say that she is still unhappy; her wounds unstanched, her wrongs unforgiven.

    Letters to Dead Authors Andrew Lang 1878

  • Page 522 though not deep, the flowing of the unstanched blood, and the straining of the muscles in barricading the shutters, made him feel weak and nerveless.

    The Planter's Northern Bride 1854

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