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Expunge definition

ĭk-spŭnj
expunged expunges expunging
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To eliminate completely; wipe out.

A government's attempt to expunge dissidents.

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To erase or remove completely; blot out or strike out; delete; cancel.
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To erase, delete, or strike out.

Expunged their names from the list.

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Expunge is defined as to erase or get rid of.

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

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To erase or strike out.
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To eliminate completely; annihilate.
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Origin of expunge

  • Latin expungere ex- ex- pungere to prick peuk- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin expungere, present active infinitive of expungo, from ex + pungo.

    From Wiktionary

Expunge Sentence Examples

  • Perhaps it will expunge the hate and tragedy this room has seen.

  • Thus 3300 defenders were able to repulse and even to "expunge from the battlefield" the whole of the Sevastopol column, except that portion of it which drifted away to its left and joined Pavlov.

  • It was plundered by Henry VIII., to whom the memory of Becket was specially obnoxious; but the reformers were powerless to expunge the name of the saint from the Roman calendar, on which it still remains.

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