Stamp Out

Definition: Stamp Out

Stamp Out

Verb

1. End or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!".

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Synonym: Stamp Out

Destruction

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Insulation, Fire extinction

Extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out.

Refrigeration

Damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out (incombustibility) a.

Crosswords: Stamp Out

A giant press used to stamp out parts for airplane bodies at the Vought Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Stratford, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.

You kept fit and defeated the Hun - now set a high standard, a clean America! Stamp out venereal diseases / / E. Fuhr. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stamp out this New York comic strip written by liberal politicians : vote for Frank J. Mossa, Councilman at Large. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

The discovery by scientists that mosquitoes carried the disease unleashed a flurry of ambitious public health measures designed to stamp out malaria. (references)

Business

Credible reports indicate that the Government has attempted to stamp out illegal union activity. (references)

There will be continued pressure from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance to keep drug prices down. This pressure will be countered by the multinational pharmaceutical companies that will attempt to obtain premium prices to prevent parallel trade once Poland enters the EU. Abuses of the reimbursement system will come under greater scrutiny as the Sick Funds attempt to stamp out fraudulent claims. (references)

Political Rights

Taiwan

Generally free and fair popular elections for the LY have taken place four times since 1992. The Chen administration has made significant progress in its efforts to stamp out corruption and vote buying. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "stamp out": To stamp out. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏قطع بمقاس, ‏سك العملة (coinage, mint, minuend, monetize), ‏أطفأ (blow out, douse, extinguish, go out, put out, quench, snuff out, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стъпквам (override, ride down, savage, stamp down, tread down), ликвидирам (account for, liquidate, push off, put down, sell off, unmake, wind up, wipe out), потъпквам (mortify, repress, suppress, trample on, tread down, tread out, tread under, violate). (various references)

Czech

zašlápnout, vyrazit (batter, break down, get off, imprint, set off, set out, smash down, smash in, spurt, start, storm), udupat (poach, squelch), potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, tame). (various references)

French

frapper (stab, strike, stroke), découper (cut without stock removal, to stamp), éteindre, écraser sous le pied. (various references)

German

austreten (be excused, come out, escape, go to the john, go to the loo, issue, leave, opt out, protrude, resign, resign from, tread out, wear away, wear out, withdraw), ausrotten (destroy, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, kill off, to eradicate, to exterminate, to extirpate, uproot, wipe out). (various references)

Greek 

εξολοθρεύω (destroy, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, purge). (various references)

Italian

soffocare (choke, quell, smother, squash, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter), estinguere (damp, delete, erase, extinction, extinguish, put out, switch off), eliminare (cut out, eliminate, eliminating, get rid of, redress, remove, zap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

踏み消す (to stamp out), �"ち貫く (to bore into, to hit and hit, to knock down walls, to pierce, to punch, to stamp out), �"ち抜く (to bore into, to hit and hit, to knock down walls, to pierce, to punch, to stamp out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うちぬく (to bore into, to hit and hit, to knock down walls, to pierce, to punch, to stamp out), ふみけす (to stamp out). (various references)

Manx

mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, choking, damp, drown, dull, expire, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, quench, shut off, stifle, suppress, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Pig Latin

ampstay outay

Serbo-Croatian

suzbiti (bound, repress). (various references)

Spanish

apagar pateando. (various references)

Turkish

şekillendirmek (develop, figure, form, formalize, give form, give shape, shape), şekil vermek (dress, form, give form, give shape, lick into shape, mould, set, shape, style). (various references)

Ukrainian

придушувати (deject, depress, neutralize, outray, overgo, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, strangle, suppress). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: topmast.

-2 letters: outsat, upmost, utmost.

-3 letters: atoms, autos, matts, mauts, moats, motts, mutts, pouts, pumas, putto, putts, spout, sputa, stamp, stoat, stoma, stomp, stopt, stoup, stout, stump, stupa, sutta, tamps, tauts, toast, touts, tumps.

-4 letters: amps, amus, atom, atop, auto, maps, mast, mats, matt, maut, moas, moat, mops, most, mots, mott, must, muts, mutt.

+2 letters: mouthparts, postpartum.

+3 letters: amputations, imputations, petrolatums.

+4 letters: computations, mountaintops, permutations, portmanteaus.

+5 letters: multihospital, outplacements, posttraumatic, protactiniums, unsymptomatic.