stomp out

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English

Verb

stomp out (third-person singular simple present stomps out, present participle stomping out, simple past and past participle stomped out)

  1. To stamp out.
    It's time to stomp out crime in America.
    • 1990 April 7, Charles McDermott, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:
      19 yr old gay male stomped out by police marching for gay rights in upstate New York
  2. To extinguish something by stomping or stepping forcefully on it; used with intangible objects.
    • 2005, “Banquet”, in Silent Alarm, performed by Bloc Party:
      'Cause you know I'm on fire so stomp me out