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ex·punge
Audio Help [ik-spuhnj] Pronunciation Key
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Audio Help [ik-spuhnj] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object), -punged, -pung·ing.
| 1. | to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate. |
| 2. | to efface; wipe out or destroy. |
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ex·pung·er, noun
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expunge
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tr.v. ex·punged, ex·pung·ing, ex·pung·es
[Latin expungere : ex-, ex- + pungere, to prick; see peuk- in Indo-European roots.] ex·pung'er n. |
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expunge
1602, from L. expungere "mark (a name on a list) for deletion" by pricking dots above or below it, lit. "prick out," from ex- "out" + pungere "to prick, stab."
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| expunge | |
verb | |
| remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark" [syn: strike] |
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Main Entry: ex·punge
Pronunciation: ik-'sp&nj
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: ex·punged; ex·pung·ing
: to cancel out or destroy completely <expunge the court records of an acquitted defendant> —ex·punge·ment noun
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Expunge
Ex*punc"tion\, n. [L. expunctio execution, performance, from expungere. See Expunge.] The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged. --Milton.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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