stamp

stamp is a 5-letter English word with 40 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 40 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
2. intransitive verb. To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
3. intransitive verb. To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
4. intransitive verb. To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
5. intransitive verb. Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.
6. intransitive verb. To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
7. intransitive verb. To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
8. intransitive verb. To strike; to beat; to crush.
9. intransitive verb. To strike the foot forcibly downward.
10. noun. The act of stamping, as with the foot.
11. noun. The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.
12. noun. The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.
13. noun. that which is marked; a thing stamped.
14. transitive verb. A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.
15. transitive verb. An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.
16. transitive verb. Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.
17. transitive verb. An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.
18. transitive verb. A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.
19. transitive verb. Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.
20. transitive verb. A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.
21. transitive verb. A half-penny.
22. transitive verb. Money, esp. paper money.
23. noun. a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents

    Synonyms: seal

24. noun. a block or die used to imprint a mark or design
25. noun. machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

    Synonyms: pestle

26. noun. a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid

    Synonyms: postage

27. noun. a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving

    "he put his stamp on the envelope"

    Synonyms: impression

28. noun. a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid
29. noun. a type or class

    "more men of his stamp are needed"

30. noun. something that can be used as an official medium of payment

    Synonyms: tender

31. noun. the distinctive form in which a thing is made

    "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region"

    Synonyms: cast, mold, mould

32. verb. destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot

    "Stamp fascism into submission"

    "stamp out tyranny"

33. verb. treat or classify according to a mental stereotype

    "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European"

    Synonyms: pigeonhole, stereotype

34. verb. to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something

    "a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps"

35. verb. affix a stamp to

    "Are the letters properly stamped?"

36. verb. raise in a relief

    "embossed stationery"

    Synonyms: boss, emboss

37. verb. crush or grind with a heavy instrument

    "stamp fruit extract the juice"

38. verb. form or cut out with a mold, form, or die

    "stamp needles"

39. verb. walk heavily

    "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots"

    Synonyms: stomp, stump

40. verb. reveal clearly as having a certain character

    "His playing stamps him as a Romantic"

Synonyms

seal, pestle, postage, impression, tender, cast, mold, mould, pigeonhole, stereotype, boss, emboss, stomp, stump

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stamp:

tamps

Common word forms

stamps, stamped, stamper, stamping, stampable, stampless

Words from these letters

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