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Antonyms for stamp

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : stamp
Phonetic Transcription : stæmp


Definition of stamp

Origin :
  • Old English stempan "to pound in a mortar, stamp," from Proto-Germanic *stampojanan (cf. Old Norse stappa, Middle Dutch stampen, Old High German stampfon, German stampfen "to stamp with the foot, beat, pound," German Stampfe "pestle"), from nasalized form of PIE root *stebh- "to support, place firmly on" (cf. Greek stembein "to trample, misuse;" see staff (n.)). The meaning "impress or mark (something) with a die" is first recorded 1560.
  • Related: Stamped; stamping. To stamp out "extinguish (a fire) by stamping on it" is attested from 1851 in the figurative sense. Stamping ground "one's particular territory" (1821) is from the notion of animals. Italian stampa "stamp, impression," Spanish estampar "to stamp, print," French estamper "to stamp, impress" are Germanic loan-words.
  • noun impression, symbol, seal
  • noun character
  • verb step on hard
  • verb imprint; press mark on
Example sentences :
  • This operation is performed by a female, with the aid of a stamp.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens » by Henry Bore
  • Dare you to wear your brother's coat without the crescent which should stamp you as his cadet.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • He really understood how to sugar-coat poison as well as any man of his stamp could.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • When I reached his side, the stamp of death was on his face.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • You acted like a hero in trying to shield Alan Porter, and I like men of that stamp.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • It was a good dime, and bore the stamp of the best and greatest nation on the earth.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • We stamp our feet to warm them, and dead citizens arise in heavy clouds.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • Bit by bit he'll stamp his own character into hers—because she loves him.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • At Jocelyn's Rock the stamp of age was upon every decoration, on every ornament.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • You have nothing to lose but the stamp to answer this announcement.
  • Extract from : « The Mayflower, January, 1905 » by Various

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