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Definition of Expunge

1. Verb. Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line. "Scratch that remark"

Definition of Expunge

1. v. t. To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

Definition of Expunge

1. Verb. To erase or strike out. ¹

2. Verb. To eliminate completely; annihilate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Expunge

1. to delete [v -PUNGED, -PUNGING, -PUNGES] - See also: delete

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expunge

Literary usage of Expunge

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

1. History of Congress: Exhibiting a Classification of the Proceedings of the by John Agg (1834)
""Sect, 34, lines 9, 10- expunge 'in the presence of a consta- Senate. hie, ... expunge ' which words may be expressed by their respective initials.* " Sect. ..."

2. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by Thomas Hart Benton, United States Congress (1861)
"But it has been contended that the word expunge is not the appropriate word ; and we have wrested it from its true signification, in applying it to the ..."

3. Life and Times of Andrew Jackson: Soldier--statesman--president by A S Colyar (1904)
"... and said: "Mr. President: It is now three years since the resolve was adopted by the Senate which it is my present motive to expunge from the journal. ..."

4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1900)
"Upon the determination of a proceeding to expunge scandal or impertinence, the applicant, if successful, will be allowed to take the costs of the proceeding ..."

5. Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States by George Ticknor Curtis (1883)
"In speaking of the use of the word expunge, the author says: " When the contents of a book are in part rejected, they are aplly described as being expunged; ..."

6. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"That court was organized under the constitution and in obedience to law; and, if the legislature can expunge one of its decisions or cancel one of its ..."

7. A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of Common Law, Bankruptcy by John Mews, Cecil Maurice Chapman, Harry Hadden Wickes Sparham, Arthur Horatio Todd (1884)
"The commissioners can only expunge a proof on the ground that the debt is not due ; and it is ... 106,8.183, empowering the commissioner to expunge proof, ..."

8. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"... but so many States had demanded the removal of the vote of censure that, early in March, Benton gave notice that he would soon move to expunge, He was, ..."

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