expunge

Expunge is defined as to erase or get rid of.

(verb)

An example of to expunge is to remove all names of underage witnesses from a crime report.

See expunge in Webster's New World College Dictionary

to erase or remove completely; blot out or strike out; delete; cancel

Origin: L expungere (pp. expunctus), to mark (with points) for omission, erase < ex-, out + pungere, to prick: see point

See expunge in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb ex·punged, ex·pung·ing, ex·pung·es

To erase or strike out: “I have corrected some factual slips, expunged some repetitions” (Kenneth Tynan).
To eliminate completely; annihilate. See Synonyms at erase.

Origin:

Origin: Latin expungere

Origin: : ex-, ex-

Origin: + pungere, to prick; see peuk- in Indo-European roots

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