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Stamp out   /stæmp aʊt/   Listen
verb
Stamp  v. t.  (past & past part. stamped; pres. part. stamping)  
1.
To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. "He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground."
2.
To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
3.
To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill. "I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small."
4.
To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
5.
Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart. "God... has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being."
6.
To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
7.
To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
To stamp out, to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion.






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"Stamp out" Quotes from Famous Books



... what rage the tidings of these outbreaks of the fanaticism which he had hoped to stamp out would fill the persecutor. But he was not the person to be balked, and he resolved to hunt up the objects of his hatred even in their most obscure and distant hiding-places. In one strange city after another he accordingly appeared, armed with the apparatus ...
— The Life of St. Paul • James Stalker

... him while he drew a long breath; a breath which seemed to press back a tangible weight of hatred and utter contempt for the Pilgrim; a breath while it seemed that he must kill him there and stamp out the very semblance of humanity ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower

... for a tract; Strive to admonish ere you act; In Virtue's force enrol recruits And stamp out Belial with your boots. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 • Various

... to cripple and stamp out socialism-communism was accepted and followed particularly by the states with fascist leanings. Since many western states had large and influential socialist minorities and since several of them had been governed by coalitions ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... officer, the entire population would constitute one solid combination to resist him." And, not satisfied with attempting to show as clearly as he seemed to know how, his own inability under the laws to stamp out Treason, he proceeded to consider what he thought Congress also could not do under the Constitution. Said he: "The question fairly stated, is: Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce into submission a State which is attempting to withdraw, or has actually withdrawn, from the ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan


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