stamp out

1. 1.

   end or extinguish by forceful means

   “Stamp out poverty!”

   Synonymskill

   Broaderend

Questions about stamp out

What does stamp out mean?

stamp out means "end or extinguish by forceful means".

What is another word for stamp out?

Close synonyms include kill. 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 out a common word?

stamp out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.