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ex·punge    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.
[Origin: 1595–1605; < L expungere to blot out, erase, equiv. to ex- ex-1 + pungere to prick]

—Related forms
ex·pung·er, noun
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ex·punge    Audio Help   (ĭk-spŭnj')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   ex·punged, ex·pung·ing, ex·pung·es
  1. To erase or strike out: "I have corrected some factual slips, expunged some repetitions" (Kenneth Tynan).
  2. To eliminate completely; annihilate. See Synonyms at erase.


[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."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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] 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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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

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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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