stamping out
Eradicating by force
Stamping out means suppressing or eliminating something completely, typically something harmful or unwanted: The government is committed to stamping out corruption.
The image comes from extinguishing a fire by trampling it underfoot.
You stamp out a rebellion, a disease, or a bad habit—anything that needs to be crushed decisively.
- quashingForcibly ending or voiding
- abolishingFormally ending something
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- iron fistBrutal autocratic rule
- snuffingExtinguishing by smothering
snuffing out · subduing · elimination · extinction · eradication · nullifying · trampling · crushing · smothering · dousing · terminating · silencing · neutralizing · obliterating · annihilating · defeating · compacting · heel
- eliminatingeliminating, eradicating, wiping out, exterminating, abolishing
- eliminationremoval, exclusion, eradication, obliteration, expulsion
- suppressionrepression, inhibition, restraint, silencing, muzzling
- destructiondestruction, destroying, demolishing, devastation, ruination
stamping outpromoting
Actively supporting or furthering
encouraging · fostering · supporting · nurturing · championing
stamping outcreating
Making something new
starting · initiating · generating · spawning · originating
stamping outspreading
Extending over space
disseminating · propagating · proliferating · amplifying · expanding
stamp, stamped, imprint, stamping, postmark, stamper, stampers, rubber stamp, postage stamp