stamp out
phrasal verb
stamped out; stamping out; stamps out
1
: to stop or destroy (something bad)
stamp out smallpox/corruption
2
: to stop (something) from burning by stepping on it forcefully with the feet
stamp out a fire
stamp a cigarette out
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Through much of his bloody rise to power in Panama – the small but geopolitically key country with its canal connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – Noriega was a CIA asset, assisting to stamp out the spread of leftist governments in Latin America.
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Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
The saddest thing about her character is the way affection has been stamped out of her life by rage.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Venezuelans got accustomed to dismissing it all as noise, just a pretext the dictatorship employed to stamp out civil rights.
—Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Restrictions on reproductive rights also aimed to increase birth rates following two world wars that had stamped out some of the population, particularly in the Soviet Union and Italy.
—Seda Saluk, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
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Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
The saddest thing about her character is the way affection has been stamped out of her life by rage.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Venezuelans got accustomed to dismissing it all as noise, just a pretext the dictatorship employed to stamp out civil rights.
—Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Restrictions on reproductive rights also aimed to increase birth rates following two world wars that had stamped out some of the population, particularly in the Soviet Union and Italy.
—Seda Saluk, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stamp out
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“Stamp out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stamp%20out. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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