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stamp down

v. to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" [syn: suppress, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb]

Usage examples of "stamp down".

A sandaled foot tried to stamp down on her hand, and she flogged herself back to alertness.

If the thing that was climbing saw him it would stamp down on him as surely as he would crush a poison-spider.

We can live as stupidly and brutally as we wish, and stamp down any inclination to spirituality or mysticism that we see in our neighbors or ourselves.

But when you also had to stamp down snow on each step it became a nightmare.

He banged his stamp down on the yellow disembarkation card, gave the proffered identity card a short glance, nodded and waved the big man on.

Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world.

Then he stepped forward to stamp down on the tube with his left foot.

I've had to stamp down on them on the odd occasion in the past, mind you.