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 get rid of, eradicate.
    Since 1956, Nasution had been trying to stamp out corruption in the Army.

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