stamp down

1. 1.

   bring under control by force or authority

   “suppress a nascent uprising”

   “stamp down on littering”

   “conquer one's desires”

   Synonymssuppresssubdueconquer

   Broadercontrol

   Narrowerchoke offhushburkesilencesquelchquench

Questions about stamp down

What does stamp down mean?

stamp down means "bring under control by force or authority".

What is another word for stamp down?

Close synonyms include suppress, subdue, conquer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stamp down a common word?

stamp down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.