Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb stamp

9 senses of stamp

Sense 1
stomp, stamp, stump -- (walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots")
       => walk -- (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet")

Sense 2
stamp -- (to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something; "a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps")
       => impress, imprint -- (mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax")

Sense 3
stamp -- (reveal clearly as having a certain character; "His playing stamps him as a Romantic")
       => qualify, characterize, characterise -- (describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover")

Sense 4
stamp -- (affix a stamp to; "Are the letters properly stamped?")
       => affix, stick on -- (attach to; "affix the seal here")

Sense 5
pigeonhole, stereotype, stamp -- (treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European")
       => classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate -- (arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?")

Sense 6
stamp -- (destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny")
       => snuff out, extinguish -- (put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children")

Sense 7
stamp -- (form or cut out with a mold, form, or die; "stamp needles")
       => shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge -- (make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword")

Sense 8
stamp -- (crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract the juice")
       => squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze -- (to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon")

Sense 9
emboss, boss, stamp -- (raise in a relief; "embossed stationery")
       => impress, imprint -- (mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax")