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UK
/ɛkspˈʌndʒ/
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[ US /ɪkˈspəndʒ/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspəndʒ/ ]
VERB
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remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
scratch that remark
Please strike this remark from the record
How To Use expunge In A Sentence
- I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
- She has been unable to expunge the details of the accident from her memory.
- A morning newspaper should be a city's crown of glory, an intellectual Aurora ushering in the new-born day; but in Houston's case her chief newspaper is a sorrow's crown of sorrow, her inexpungeable badge of shame. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
- They were arrested and court-martialed and it wasn't until many years later that their record was expunged.
- The "I had my records expunged" - or "I had my name taken off the list" ploy is just as phony. Capt. Mike McGrath's "Macs Facts"
- The editor expunged a passage from the book.
- Never had he suggested a deal to expunge some crime from his past record. BLACK EAGLES
- If we try and expunge all the bits that don't fit with a controlled or rational model of the mind, we end up with something that's bleached of interest.
- The usual pattern was the one-off benefit to private capital of a state asset on the cheap - with debts being expunged and subsidies being provided.
- He's not just trying to remove the Treaty from law, but expunge it from public consciousness altogether.