stamp out
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /stamp aʊt/
- Hyphenation: stamp out
Verb
stamp out (third-person singular simple present stamps out, present participle stamping out, simple past and past participle stamped out)
- (transitive) To extinguish by stamping.
- (transitive) To get rid of totally; to eradicate.
- Since 1956, Nasution had been trying to stamp out corruption in the Army.
Translations
to extinguish by stamping
to get rid of
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