Expunge
[ɪk'spʌn(d)ʒ;ek-] or [ɪk'spʌndʒ]
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense.
Checked by Antoine
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Erase, efface, obliterate, cancel, blot out, strike out, rub out, wipe out.
Inputed by Lewis
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Efface, obliterate, erase, cancel, blot_out
ANT:Write, delineate, mark, trace
Checker: Sheena
Definition
v.t. to wipe out: to efface.—n. Expunc′tion.
Checked by Lionel
Examples
- 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 engines were dismantled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This was a degradation which the North would not permit any longer than until they could get the power to expunge such laws from the statute books. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Without debate, we expunged Billfinger as Billfinger, and called him Ferguson. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Randolph