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say it: TUR-nik-it
tourniquet is a noun meaning "bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure". It carries one recorded sense.
bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tourniquet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.