stamp out

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /stamp aʊt/
Hyphenation: stamp out

Verb

to stamp out (third-person singular simple present stamps out, present participle stamping out, simple past and past participle stamped out)

to extinguish by stamping.
(idiomatic) To totally get rid of; to eradicate.
Since 1956, Nasution had been trying to stamp out corruption in the Army.

Translations

to extinguish by stamping

German: ausstanzen, austrampeln

Russian: затоптать (ru) pf (zatoptatʹ)

to get rid of

Dutch: uitroeien (nl)
French: juguler (fr), mettre fin à
German: ausmerzen (de), ausrotten (de)
Russian: искоренить (ru) pf (iskorenitʹ)

Serbo-Croatian: iskorijeniti (sh), riješiti se
Slovene: izkoreniniti
Turkish: bertaraf etmek (tr), kökünü kurutmak

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