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Definition of expunge in English: expungeverb ɛkˈspʌn(d)ʒɪkˈspʌn(d)ʒɪkˈspəndʒ [with object]Obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant) 擦去；抹去；除去；删去；勾销 the kind of man that could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory 他可以将不满意的事情从记忆中彻底抹去。 Example sentencesExamples - Nevertheless, there is, I'm sure, a certain catharsis involved in expunging one's darkest secrets in those sealed little booths.
- This should be entirely expunged from our thinking.
- If you want someone's memory to be expunged from popular consciousness, you shouldn't go around writing newspaper articles about them.
- All references to his drug use have been expunged, and he's now a dashing old adventurer grieving over his inability to save his son's life.
- He's not just trying to remove the Treaty from law, but expunge it from public consciousness altogether.
- The incident could be expunged from his records as the words of a mentally unstable girl.
- Anyway, I'm back on the cam and the imposter has been expunged.
- But the answer to the present imperfections is in part to abolish faith schools in their entirety and expunge religion from schools, except as a topic of study.
- Those in the book can be easily erased while the ones in the heart cannot be expunged, he said.
- 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.
- So the world has been stood on its head, historical memory has been expunged, and rationality and decency have gone into retreat across the continent of Europe.
- Hector had expunged any reference to his health when issuing his blue copy.
- It now expunges records of a book's last reader after 30 days.
- Thoughts such as those though will be expunged from the memory of the runner when he takes to the grid for this afternoon's 500-mile race.
- Provisionally, they seemed to agree, provided all religious references were expunged from the script.
- These individuals see the Intifada as expunging the occupation and arriving finally at independence.
- They demanded that school officials apologize and expunge the incident from her son's records.
- Perhaps there needs to be some kind of commission for truth and reconciliation so the historical crimes perpetrated in its name can be expunged from the record.
- They were arrested and court-martialed and it wasn't until many years later that their record was expunged.
- Also, any ‘questionable language’ in the songs has been expunged.
Synonyms erase, remove, delete, rub out, wipe out, efface cross out, strike out, blot out, blank out cancel, annul, destroy, obliterate, eradicate, extinguish, eliminate, abolish, annihilate, extirpate
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin expungere 'mark for deletion by means of points', from ex- 'out' + pungere 'to prick'. Rhymesblunge, grunge, gunge, lunge, plunge, scunge, sponge Definition of expunge in US English: expungeverbɪkˈspəndʒikˈspənj [with object]Erase or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant) 擦去；抹去；除去；删去；勾销 I’ve kind of expunged that period from my CV Example sentencesExamples - These individuals see the Intifada as expunging the occupation and arriving finally at independence.
- Provisionally, they seemed to agree, provided all religious references were expunged from the script.
- It now expunges records of a book's last reader after 30 days.
- Nevertheless, there is, I'm sure, a certain catharsis involved in expunging one's darkest secrets in those sealed little booths.
- If you want someone's memory to be expunged from popular consciousness, you shouldn't go around writing newspaper articles about them.
- Also, any ‘questionable language’ in the songs has been expunged.
- The incident could be expunged from his records as the words of a mentally unstable girl.
- But the answer to the present imperfections is in part to abolish faith schools in their entirety and expunge religion from schools, except as a topic of study.
- Anyway, I'm back on the cam and the imposter has been expunged.
- Thoughts such as those though will be expunged from the memory of the runner when he takes to the grid for this afternoon's 500-mile race.
- All references to his drug use have been expunged, and he's now a dashing old adventurer grieving over his inability to save his son's life.
- They were arrested and court-martialed and it wasn't until many years later that their record was expunged.
- Those in the book can be easily erased while the ones in the heart cannot be expunged, he said.
- 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.
- Hector had expunged any reference to his health when issuing his blue copy.
- They demanded that school officials apologize and expunge the incident from her son's records.
- So the world has been stood on its head, historical memory has been expunged, and rationality and decency have gone into retreat across the continent of Europe.
- Perhaps there needs to be some kind of commission for truth and reconciliation so the historical crimes perpetrated in its name can be expunged from the record.
- He's not just trying to remove the Treaty from law, but expunge it from public consciousness altogether.
- This should be entirely expunged from our thinking.
Synonyms erase, remove, delete, rub out, wipe out, efface
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin expungere ‘mark for deletion by means of points’, from ex- ‘out’ + pungere ‘to prick’. |