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  1. transitive verb To bring down (the foot) forcibly.
  2. transitive verb To bring the foot down onto (an object or surface) forcibly.
  3. transitive verb To extinguish or destroy by or as if by trampling underfoot: stamped the rebellion; stamp out a fire.
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  • Of this stamp was a gay young Yorkshire squire, who by the death of an uncle and by the loss of his father while a boy, had had so little education as not to know how to use it. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
  • But his stamp is all over the game prep as words like "passion," —  USCHO.com News
  • The Shine star noted he had grown up in the 1950s and 60s when 'the only person on a stamp was the Queen.' —  Celebrity Mound
  • The other stamp was a one-cent stamp depicting a Tiffany lamp. —  news | OS | http://www.ocala.com
  • On the top of the stamp is a picture showing what the stamp impression looks like. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
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mark ·  coin ·  impression ·  seal ·  sign ·  symbol ·  attribute ·  accent ·  conception ·  picture ·  card ·  print

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stamp:   stamps ·  stamping ·  stamped
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English stampen, possibly alteration of Old English stempan, to pound in a mortar.

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  1. Also dial. stomp; from Middle English stampen, a variant (due to Low German or Scandinavian influence) of *stempen, from Anglo-Saxon stempan = Middle Dutch stempen, stampen, Dutch stampen = Middle Low German stampen = Old High German stamfōn, Middle High German stampfen, German stampfen = Icelandic stappa (for *stampa) = Swedish stampa = Danish stampe (cf. Italian stampare = Spanish Portuguese estampar = Old French estamper, French étamper, from Teutonic), stamp, = Greek στέμβειν, stamp, shake, agitate, misuse (akin to στείβειν, stamp on, tread, στέμφυλον, olives or grapes from which the oil or juice has been pressed), = Sanskrit √ stambh, make firm or steady, properly
  2. Old High German stamph, stampf, Middle High German stampf, a stamping-instrument, a stamp (later F. estampe = Italian stampa, a stamp); in diminutive form, Middle Low German Low German stempel = Old High German stemphil, Middle High German stempfel, G. (after Low German) stempel = Swedish stämpel = Danish stempel, a stamp; from the verb.
 

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