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stamping out

stamping out is the present participle and gerund of stamp out.

Meaning of stamp out

Verb

stamp out (third-person singular simple present stamps out, present participle stamping out, simple past and past participle stamped out)

  1. (transitive) To extinguish by stamping.
  2. (transitive) To get rid of totally; to eradicate.
    • Since 1956, Nasution had been trying to stamp out corruption in the Army.

Questions about stamping out

What is stamping out the present participle and gerund of?
Stamping out is the present participle and gerund of stamp out.

Words near stamping out in the dictionary

  1. stamping
  2. stamping ground
  3. stamping grounds
  4. stamping mill
  5. stamping mills
  6. stamping out
  7. stampings
  8. stampless
  9. stamplessness
  10. Stampley
  11. Stampleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stamping out (page history and authors); stamp out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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