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)

1. (transitive) To extinguish by stamping.
2. (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

• German: ausstanzen, austrampeln (de)
• Russian: затоптать (ru) pf (zatoptatʹ)

to get rid of

• Catalan: erradicar (ca)
• Dutch: uitroeien (nl)
• French: juguler (fr), mettre fin à
• German: ausmerzen (de), ausrotten (de)
• Italian: estirpare (it)
• Portuguese: erradicar (pt)
• Russian: искореня́ть (ru) impf (iskorenjátʹ), искорени́ть (ru) pf (iskorenítʹ), избавля́ться (ru) impf (izbavljátʹsja), изба́виться (ru) pf (izbávitʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: iskorijeniti (sh), riješiti se
• Slovene: izkoreniniti
• Spanish: erradicar (es)
• Turkish: bertaraf etmek (tr), kökünü kurutmak