expunge

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

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  • Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to [ expunge ] (alter) their former systems of government. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies
  • With luck she'd be home comfortably before Christmas, and her father would accept the way things were, or had turned out to be, and then she would be Julia for the rest of her life, and she could expunge the name and identity of Josephine from her memory. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • I remember a passage in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield , which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: “I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.”' BOSWELL. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3
  • Judge orders UGA to expunge Soloski's sexual harassment records news@onlineathens. com ATLANTA - A second federal judge has ruled that the University of Georgia should clear former journalism dean John Soloski of sexual harassment charges. —  OnlineAthens: Top Headlines
  • It's a real contradiction that so many Americans, mostly conservative Republicans, want to expunge that section from their beloved Constitution (from which they also want to expunge separation of church and state.) —  The World Can't Wait!
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin expungere : ex-, ex- + pungere, to prick; see peuk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese expungir = Italian espungere, from Latin expungere, prick out, expunge, settle an account, execute, from ex, out, + pungere, prick, pierce: see pungent, point.
 

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/ɛksˈpəndʒ/
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