stamp out

phrasal verb

stamped out; stamping out; stamps out

: to stop or destroy (something bad)

stamp out smallpox/corruption

: to stop (something) from burning by stepping on it forcefully with the feet

stamp out a fire

stamp a cigarette out

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To stamp out those protests, the regime army launched a brutal assault on the city’s Khalidiya neighborhood in 2012, using tanks and mortars to attack civilian homes, causing some to collapse. —

Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024 Australia was the first country to make social media platforms pay media outlets royalties for sharing their content and now plans to threaten them with fines for failing to stamp out scams. —

Byron Kaye and Praveen Menon, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024 Yet the White House summit ushered in that very type of concentrated reliance, as well as the kind of anticompetitive behavior that the Biden administration has pledged to stamp out. —

Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024 The revelation comes as the US military has been on a four-year mission to stamp out extremism in the ranks, an effort that USA TODAY has covered extensively. —

Will Carless, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stamp out