Definition of Expunging

1. Noun. Deletion by an act of expunging or erasing.

Exact synonyms: Erasure, Expunction
Generic synonyms: Deletion
Derivative terms: Erase, Erase, Expunge, Expunge

Definition of Expunging

1. Verb. (present participle of expunge) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Expunging

1. expunge [v] - See also: expunge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expunging

expulsions
expulsive
expulsive pains
expunct
expuncted
expunction
expunctions
expuncts
expunge
expunged
expungement
expungements
expunger
expungers
expunges
expunging (current term)
expurgate
expurgated
expurgates
expurgating
expurgation
expurgations
expurgator
expurgatorial
expurgatorious
expurgators
expurgatory
expurge
expurged
expurges

Literary usage of Expunging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"ALABAMA expunging RESOLUTIONS. MR. KING, of Alabama, presented the preamble and joint resolution of the general assembly of his State, entreating their ..."

2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"ON THE expunging RESOLUTION Speech delivered in the United States Senate, April 4, ... IF the Senate may expunge, and by expunging (in any form or manner) ..."

3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by Thomas Hart Benton, United States Congress (1861)
"expunging Resolution. The idea, therefore, that the Senate is bound to preserve its journal only until it is published, and then may alter, mutilate, ..."

4. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"The General Assembly of that State had instructed both Tyler and Leigh to vote for the expunging of the resolution censuring Jackson for removing the ..."

5. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster (1890)
"PROTEST AGAINST THE expunging RESOLUTION.* THE Senate having under consideration the resolutions, moved by Mr. Benton, for expunging from the journal of ..."

6. The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay by Henry Clay (1844)
"ON THE expunging RESOLUTION. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, JANUARY 16, 1837. ' Resolved, that the president, in the late executive proceedings in ..."

7. The Life and Times of Henry Clay by Calvin Calton (1846)
"The Yeas and Nays on the expunging Resolution.—Remarks of Mr. Clay. ... Act of expunging.—A Scene in the Senate. THE secret of General Jackson's influence, ..."

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