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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

v.

erase, delete, efface; see cancel 1. See syn. study at erase.

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.