to stamp
20
4.3
- verb
- /stæmp/
:
apagar
- But the English did try to stamp out the Irish, didn't they?
- try to stamp out
- attempt to stamp out
- efforts to stamp out
So we we can never stamp those words or ideas out.
- So we we can never stamp those words or ideas out.
- How would you like it if a great Bigfoot came down and stamped on you?
- It's like you can't stamp crypto out because the technology is out of the bottle now and it's everywhere.
- So some would say that we've got sort of a job half done and that we still need to stamp out inflation.
- But doesn't mean, of course, that the government can't grow even larger and stamp down, you know, those, those those openings.
- He was stamping on their heads, fucking them up, like, like beating him to a pulp.
- And that you know, in in our our effort to you know, to squelch and stamp out various pre modern superstitions in the modern era.
Examples
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Despite one or two objections, a policy was soon enacted to stamp out this selfish freeloading.
Academic text (1993) -
We must stamp them out.
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There were forces trying to stamp out such private schools.
Academic text (2006) -
The harder you try to stamp out an ideology the stronger it becomes.
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These are the urges that we gotta stamp out.
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A first aim of colonial governments was to stamp out warfare and fighting both within and between indigenous groups.
Academic text (1999) -
It is imperative that we organize to stamp out the copying evil.
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Everyman's mission is to stamp out testicular and prostate cancer.
Academic text (2010) -
The government is determined to stamp out corruption in all its forms.
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Efforts to stamp out discrimination must be taken seriously by everyone.
Synonyms
401
1.6
To press something hard so it breaks or loses its shape
31
5.7
To put out a small flame by covering or pinching it
23
4.4
Stop a fire, candle, or other light from burning
13
4.2
To stop something completely using strong action
1
4.0
To press a small burning thing so it stops burning, for example a cigarette
Stop something by using force or strict rules
To stop something burning by crushing it
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Archaic
153
2.5
A government card or paper that people with little money use to buy food at certain stores
1
7.8
A law that puts a paid official stamp on newspapers and legal papers in the American colonies which causes protests
- Archaic
1
5.4
A small paper token shops give customers to collect and exchange for goods
- UK
1
7.2
A payment you make by buying an official stamp and putting it on certain documents
A small old paper used to pay for sending letters and often kept by collectors
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Etymology
To stamp meaning to crush or put out comes from the old 'to press' sense, so you can stamp grapes to break them or stamp out a small fire by pressing it down.