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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expunge" Quotes from Famous Books

... suppose that you are not deliberately insulting, and I pass it over. I intend to kill this man. It is a duty which I owe to society. And as for the rapier—believe me, Barnstable, I am no novice. And my blood tingles and my soul aches with the desire to expunge that man from life with my own hand. Come, we have talked enough. There is a case of swords in the cabin. Will you do me the favor ...

— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis

... parallel Case in Scripture; where we find, that the Rape of Dinah was revenged, cruelly revenged, by the Sons of Jacob. Dinah, like Clarissa, had Proposals of Marriage made to her by the Ravisher. But these were not thought sufficient to expunge the Stain upon a Person of that Family, from which was to proceed the Son of Him whose eyes are purer than to behold Iniquity. Therefore a Massacre was made of the King Hamor, and his son Shechem; and their People were ...

— Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript • Samuel Richardson

... 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 ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... which the North would not permit any longer than until they could get the power to expunge such laws from the statute books. Prior to the time of these encroachments the great majority of the people of the North had no particular quarrel with slavery, so long as they were not forced to have it themselves. But they were not willing ...

— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant

... account of our interview, as it would, I am convinced, add greatly to the interest of the narrative. If you have no objection to this, perhaps you would kindly correct any statements put into your mouth which are not quite accurate, or expunge anything which might prejudice you with the public either of the North or the South, if unluckily anything of this nature should have crept in. My letters, were written a day or two after the conversation, but you had so much of interest and new to tell me that I do not feel sure that I may ...

— Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee • Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son

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