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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: expunge)
Usage examples of "expunged".
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.
If these two have not expunged the stain on their honor by that day, we must vote against renewal, for the sake of our youth.
He had been given to understand by Gollee Gren that the abortive incident had been expunged from the record.
She'd be grateful when that memory was expunged from her mind by her return to the Ranges.
Already I have expunged his name and the name of his sire from every edifice and monument in Egypt, but I must destroy him and his memory for ever.
They had chiselled away every portrait of the false pharaoh and expunged his name from the walls and tall hypostyle columns.
At the same time, each time he was warned of some dire consequence or advised about some new potentially embarrassing or stressful step in the court-martial process, he was offered another chance to voluntarily retire with full rank, time in service, his records expunged, and a completely honorable discharge-definitely "carrot and stick7' tactics.
On their shared missions of extreme hazard, when life could be expunged within the space of the next indrawn breath, they had become closer than brothers ever could.
When that, too, is expunged, I will have fulfilled the Amida's prerequisites.
The first word had long since been expunged from the title painted in gold letters on his office door.
The executions of previous weeks hadn't totally expunged undesirable elements, but in the interest of amity, the new eliminations were made into simple retirements--the departure briefings were forcefully direct: Step out of line and disappear.
At first, yes, he'd thought that Israel might be overthrown, the Jews expunged from the face of the earth, but those careless beliefs of his youth had long since faded.
His parents thought it wise to relocate to a city where the police, whose memories were not expunged, would not know Smoke or harass him any more.