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stamp_out

stamp out

English

Verb

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

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

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