expunge Definition
ex·punge (ek spunj′, ik-)
transitive verb -·punged′, -·pung′·ing
to erase or remove completely; blot out or strike out; delete; cancel
Etymology: L expungere (pp. expunctus), to mark (with points) for omission, erase < ex-, out + pungere, to prick: see point
expunge Synonyms
expunge Usage Examples
Object
- message: To expunge a message: [ Warning: Once you expunge a message, it is gone.
- record: And how do you expunge a criminal record, anyway?
- copy: When you quit Pine, you are asked to confirm whether or not you want to expunge the copy from the INBOX folder.
- result: Any team conceding more than one walkover in a season shall have its results expunged.
- information: The Memory Hole: notes and preserves expunged information, political and cultural.
Modifying Another Word
- not: Manny's crime is not expunged, his guilt is forgiven.
- deliberately: The above scholar's comment shows that it was deliberately expunged from the recitation due to it being in conflict with the Uthmanic text.
- finally: It was not until Woolmington v. D.P.P. [ 1935 ] A.C. 462 that it was finally expunged.
- ruthlessly: As part of the cure, therefore, intellectual challenge and dissent were to be ruthlessly expunged.
- entirely: While the New Labor leaders have almost entirely expunged class struggle from their party they cannot wipe it out of British society so easily.
Preposition: from
- record: Covert actions have been effectively expunged from the record.
- memory: For a variety of reasons, it has not been quite expunged from memory.
- rest: We possess purpose and agency, consciousness and will, qualities that science has expunged from the rest of nature.
- book: It ought to be expunged from an otherwise excellent book.
- history: I find it quite extraordinary that New Wave has been all but expunged from history.
Browse dictionary entries near expunge
- ‹ expunction
- ‹ expulsion
- ‹ expropriation
- ‹ expropriate
- ‹ expressway
- ‹ expresso
- ‹ expressman
- ‹ expressly
- ‹ expressivity
- ‹ expressive
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