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expunge

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ex·punge  (k-spnj)
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·punger n.
expunge [iks-sponge]
Verb
[-punging, -punged] Formal to remove all traces of: he had tried to expunge his failure from his mind [Latin expungere to blot out]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.expungeexpunge - remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
excise, scratch, strike
delete, cancel - remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"
expunge
verb (Formal) erase, remove, destroy, abolish, cancel, get rid of, wipe out, eradicate, excise, delete, extinguish, strike out, obliterate, annihilate, efface, exterminate, annul, raze, blot out, extirpate


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Harrison was right, and she forced herself to expunge most of her beloved descriptions, though it took three re-writings before the story could be pruned down to please the fastidious Mr.
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He told him of all those things that seem most horrible to the creature of civilization in the hope that the knowledge of them might expunge from the lad's mind any inherent desire for the jungle.
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With an irritable toss of his head he wheeled suddenly toward the west as though by turning his back upon the fast disappearing plane he might expunge thoughts of its passengers from his memory.
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