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/ɪkspˈəndʒ/ Listen

verb

Expunge v. t. (past & past part. expunged; pres. part. expunging)

To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expunge an offense. "Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts."

Synonyms: To efface; erase; obliterate; strike out; destroy; annihilate; cancel.

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Etymology of 'Expunge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expunge" Quotes from Famous Books

... the stage-coach if that seemed to him the supreme goal of all his effort, just as anyone can follow Chesterton's advice to turn back the hands of the clock if he pleases. But nobody can recover his yesterdays no matter how much he abuses the clock, and no man can expunge the memory of railroads though all the stations and ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... The attempt to expunge records is always indefensible, besides being in itself irrational and absurd. It may cover up the details of wrong and folly; but it leaves an unlimited range to the most unfriendly conjecture. We are compelled to imagine what we ...

— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham

... system based on Austro-Hungarian codes; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction; legal code modified to bring it in line with Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) obligations and to expunge Marxist-Leninist legal theory ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... rejoins Byron (September 17, 1817), "surely their themes, Chivalry, war, and love, were as like as can be; and as to the compliment, if you knew what the Italians think of Ariosto, you would not hesitate about that.... If you think Scott will dislike it, say so, and I will expunge." Byron did not know that when Scott was at college at Edinburgh he had "had the audacity to produce a composition in which he weighed Homer against Ariosto, and pronounced him wanting in the balance," or that he "made a practice of reading ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... fortune." And indeed, to do him justice, he acted up to these romantic feelings. After he had published his epic of Alaric, Christina of Sweden proposed to honour him with a chain of gold of the value of five hundred pounds, provided he would expunge from his epic the eulogiums he bestowed on the Count of Gardie, whom she had disgraced. The epical soul of Scudery magnanimously scorned the bribe, and replied, that "If the chain of gold should be as weighty ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

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