| 单词 | to stamp out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stamp out d. to stamp out: to extinguish (a fire) by trampling on it. Hence, transferred to extirpate (a disease, a heresy, etc.), suppress (a rebellion) by resorting to vigorous measures; occasionally to exterminate (a people). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.) shendOE whelvec1000 allayOE ofdrunkenc1175 quenchc1175 quashc1275 stanchc1315 quella1325 slockena1340 drenchc1374 vanquishc1380 stuffa1387 daunt?a1400 adauntc1400 to put downa1425 overwhelmc1425 overwhelvec1450 quatc1450 slockc1485 suppressa1500 suffocate1526 quealc1530 to trample under foot1530 repress1532 quail1533 suppress1537 infringe1543 revocate1547 whelm1553 queasom1561 knetcha1564 squench1577 restinguish1579 to keep down1581 trample1583 repel1592 accable1602 crush1610 to wrestle down?1611 chokea1616 stranglea1616 stifle1621 smother1632 overpower1646 resuppress1654 strangulate1665 instranglea1670 to choke back, down, in, out1690 to nip or crush in the bud1746 spiflicate1749 squasha1777 to get under1799 burke1835 to stamp out1851 to trample down1853 quelch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 smash1865 garrotte1878 scotch1888 douse1916 to drive under1920 stomp1936 stultify1958 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows ii. xiii. 107 Ye stamp no nation out, though day and night Ye tread them with that absolute heel which [etc.]. 1866 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 2 i. 271 Measures..by which, to use a now prevalent expression, the disease was ‘stamped out’. 1868 Sir J. Y. Simpson in Med. Times & Gaz. 4 Jan. 5/2 The public mind has during the last two or three years become familiarised with the idea of ‘stamping out’ a disease, in the instance of the rinderpest. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 78 The Taeping insurrection was stamped out utterly three years ago. a1873 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains (1874) 289 The very remembrance of it was stamped out. 1883 Manch. Guardian 17 Oct. 5/2 Earl Spencer..remarked that in Scotland they had, by a strict enforcement of the rules, stamped out the disease altogether. 1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily 208 If these demands were granted, then he would spare them,..if not, he would stamp them out. 1899 J. Mathew Eagle Hawk & Crow ix. 117 Some fires had to be stamped out by the youths with their naked feet. to stamp out e. to stamp out: to make (paste) into ‘rounds’, to fashion (‘rounds’ of paste) by pressure with a circular cutter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing pastry, biscuits, or cake > prepare pastry, biscuits, or cake [verb (transitive)] > cut out in circles to stamp out1845 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xx. 545 Small rounds of bread stamped out with a plain..paste-cutter. 1877 Cassell's Dict. Cookery 17 Stamp out with a small cup-plate as many rounds as you wish to make pasties. 1877 Cassell's Dict. Cookery 19 Make a light sweet crust, stamp it out in small rounds. < as lemmas |
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