Crossword clues for expunge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expunge \Ex*punge"\ ([e^]ks*p[u^]nj"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expunged ([e^]ks*p[u^]njd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Expunging ([e^]ks*p[u^]n"j[i^]ng).] [L. expungere, expunctum, prick out, expunge, settle an account, execute; ex out + pungere to prick, puncture. See Pungent.]
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.
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To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expunge an offense.
--Sandys.Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts.
--Pope.Syn: To efface; erase; obliterate; strike out; destroy; annihilate; cancel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin expungere "prick out, blot out, mark (a name on a list) for deletion" by pricking dots above or below it, literally "prick out," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + pungere "to prick, stab" (see pungent). According to OED, taken by early lexicographers in English to "denote actual obliteration by pricking;" it adds that the sense probably was influenced by sponge. Related: Expunged; expunging.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To erase or strike out. 2 To eliminate completely; annihilate.
WordNet
Usage examples of "expunge".
Satan-Khan and his human quislings have succeeded in reducing humanity to a state of hopeless apostasy by falsifying history and expunging all memory of the true faith!
Paul, in an effort to expunge the implied insult that Patina would not have been capable of painting it.
Nathaniel James Hamlin having been found guilty of repeated and numerous instances of intolerably antisocial activity and having been declared an incurable and incorrigible sociopathic menace by a properly constituted panel of authorities shall be withdrawn permanently from access to society and shall be at once expunged under the provisions of the Federal Social Rehabilitation Act of 2001 and that in accordance with the terms of that act the physical container as legally defined of the proscribed identity be reconstructed and returned to society at the earliest possible time.
Bitterly, she faced the future, seeing in this jubilant reflorescence only the revenge of the bugs, mould and excrement of her slum upbringing which she had been trying to expunge all her life.
The many different flavors of fantasy -- Peake and Eddison, Hodgson and Mirrlees -- were nearly expunged, and commodified fantasy ruled.
Then, tightening or loosening his facial muscles one by one in small increments, it little by little expunged the frozen look of suffering from his face.
I believe the church will expunge itself of these perverts, these deviants.
Under the Tsars, religious superstition was encouraged, but scientific and sceptical thinking - except by a few tame scientists - was ruthlessly expunged.
Never, not once, in all the years they were in power, did the PSP manage to tap the Gracious Services circuit, nor expunge the catchment program from Telecom's exchange computers.
No reliable premonition of the past, of the races which migrated back and forth through obscurity, the anonymous cavemen whose countless lives the desert has expunged.
I shall use the word expunge so that you will know it is I contacting you and you will open your mind to me.
More exactly, once the alarm of her defloration and her fear of being killed in the morning began to pass, she found abhorrent not Shahryar himself -- undeniably a vigorous and handsome man for his forty years, and a skillful lover -- but his murderous record with our sex, which no amount of charm and tender caressing could expunge.
He said Byers’s terroristic threatening conviction had been expunged after he “completed his probation” but seemed unaware that Byers had not met the terms of that probation.
Usually, records are expunged for people who were young at the time of their offenses.
Though the record had recently been expunged, the attack had taken place in nearby Marion.