expunged

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An Obama presidency will not restore peace unless such falsehoods are first exposed and expunged from the American psyche.

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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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  • She'd never bought into the argument that rogue elements in the British Secret Service had killed Princess Di, thought the people who kept insisting that the moon landing was a hoax perpetuated by NASA were flat-out nuts, and was firmly convinced that the words grassy and knoll should be expunged from the English language. —  Ross, JoAnn - Stewart Sisters 03 - Out Of The Storm.html
  • If a record was expunged, then does that record count towards a risk assessment? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • An Obama presidency will not restore peace unless such falsehoods are first exposed and expunged from the American psyche. —  YubaNet.com
  • Florida State Repository only permits access of felony and misdemeanor convictions but arrest records are technically public records under Florida state laws unless they have been expunged or sealed by the courts.
  • Ambrose, a quarter of a century earlier, had clearly intimated that danger was popularly apprehended from this quarter[612]: while Nicon, five centuries later, states plainly that the mischievous tendency of the narrative was the cause why it had been expunged from the Armenian version[613]. —  The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
 

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