stomp out

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