| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The visible effect made on a surface by pressure: impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, mark, print. See MARKS. 2. A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members: breed, cast, description, feather, ilk, kind2, lot, manner, mold, nature, order, sort, species, stripe, type, variety. Informal : persuasion. See GROUP. 3. Something visible or evident that gives grounds for believing in the existence or presence of something else: badge, evidence, index, indication, indicator, manifestation, mark, note, sign, signification, symptom, token, witness. See SHOW. | | VERB: | 1. To produce a deep impression of: engrave, etch, fix, grave3, impress, imprint, inscribe. See MARKS. 2. To walk with loud, heavy steps: stomp, tramp, trample. Informal : tromp. See MOVE, SOUNDS. 3. To step on heavily and repeatedly so as to crush, injure, or destroy: stomp, tramp, trample, tread, tromp. See HELP. | | PHRASAL VERB: | stamp out To destroy all traces of: abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, kill1, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root1 (out or up), rub out, snuff out, uproot, wipe out. Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See HELP, MAKE.
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