stamp out
Eliminate by force
To stamp out is to extinguish or eliminate completely, usually something undesirable: stamp out a fire, stamp out corruption, stamp out disease.
The image is of crushing something underfoot until it's destroyed.
The phrase implies forceful, deliberate action to end something entirely rather than merely reduce it.
Compress with force
- quellForcibly end unrest
- extinguishEnd combustion forcibly
- stifleSuppress or restrain
- quashSuppress or nullify
repress · subdue · squelch · silence · clamp down · put down · crack down · curb
Remove completely
- exterminateDestroy completely, every one
- abolishOfficially end a practice
- annihilateDestroy completely, leaving nothing
- obliterateDestroy all traces of
destroy · extirpate · end · uproot · purge · expunge · remove · do away with
crush
Compress with force
- quellForcibly end unrest
- extinguishEnd combustion forcibly
- stifleSuppress or restrain
quash · repress · subdue · squelch · silence · clamp down · put down · crack down · curb · check
eliminate
Remove completely
- exterminateDestroy completely, every one
- abolishOfficially end a practice
- annihilateDestroy completely, leaving nothing
obliterate · destroy · extirpate · end · uproot · purge · expunge · remove · do away with · get rid of
stomp
Tread heavily
pound · flatten · extinguish · smother · douse · snuff · compress · tamp
- heat and fireignite, burn, flame, blaze, combust
- root outuproot, eradicate, root up, hunt down, track down
- cancelcancel, annul, nullify, invalidate, revoke
- Destroydestroy, annihilate, obliterate, demolish, devastate
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
- exclusionexclude, excluded, banned, bans, eliminate
stamp outcreate
Cause to exist
establish · generate · originate · spawn · give rise to
stamp outspread
To distribute widely
disseminate · propagate · proliferate · broadcast · circulate
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