stamp out

verb

1. to put out or extinguish by stamping

   to stamp out a fire

2. to crush or suppress by force

   to stamp out a rebellion

Idioms and Phrases

Extinguish or destroy, as in The government stamped out the rebellion in a brutal way, or The police were determined to stamp out drug dealers. This metaphoric expression alludes to extinguishing a fire by trampling on it. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

When Joseph Stalin seized control in the mid-1920s, he stamped out every hint of opposition, jailing, starving, outright murdering millions of citizens to tighten his grip on power.

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Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, at least theoretically, each stand to earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year should they stamp out deforestation entirely.

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Given China’s desire to control its financial system, stamping out that activity is an area where the U.S. and China could find cooperating easier.

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"Ofcom needs to go back to the drawing board and bring forward plans to stamp out mid-contract price rises once and for all."

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He was admired on the one hand for his no-nonsense drive to stamp out corruption but criticised on the other for his authoritarian clampdown on dissent and controversial attitude towards the Covid pandemic.

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Related Words

• abolish 
• crush 
• eliminate 
• eradicate 
• exterminate 
• extinguish 
• put down 
• quell 
• snuff out 
• squelch 
• suppress 
• wipe out