18 May 2018
expunge
[ik-spuhnj]
verb (used with object), expunged, expunging.
1. to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate.
2. to efface; wipe out or destroy.
Origin of expunge
Latin
1595-1605; < Latin expungere to blot out, erase, equivalent to ex- ex-1+ pungere to prick
Related forms
expunger, noun
unexpunged, adjective
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Examples from the Web for expunge
Contemporary Examples
King: We must expunge from our society the myths and half-truths that engender such groundless fears as these.
Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Alex Haley
January 19, 2014
He would do well to expunge every double-breasted suit from his wardrobe.
Herman Cain’s Power Suit
Robin Givhan
November 4, 2011
If the purge was intended simply to expunge the opposition, then Papen should have been the first to go.
A Witness to Hitler’s Rise
Zachary Shore
May 27, 2011
Historical Examples
When it reached there a motion prevailed to expunge all the records relating to it.
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
Various
He re-read his father’s letter that he might expunge the reference to the scant living.
Watch Yourself Go By
Al. G. Field
You’ll have to expunge ‘guess’ and ‘reckon’ from your vocabulary.
The Leader of the Lower School
Angela Brazil
Would he not rather, to make the book consistent, expunge it?
Watson Refuted
Samuel Francis
He recoiled from the disturbance of the Missouri compromise: they expunge it.
Thirty Years’ View (Vol. II of 2)
Thomas Hart Benton
Mr. B. returned to the resolution which it was proposed to expunge.
Thirty Years’ View (Vol. I of 2)
Thomas Hart Benton
If you may expunge a part, you may expunge the whole; and if it is expunge d, how is it kept?
Thirty Years’ View (Vol. I of 2)
Thomas Hart Benton
Today’s quote
I don’t trust someone who is nice to me but rude to the waiter, because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.
– Muhammad Ali
On this day
18 May – World Whiskey Day (3rd Saturday in March)
18 May 1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Halley’s Comet.
18 May 1980 – Volcanic eruption from Mt St Helens in Washington State, USA, killing 57 people.
18 May 1989 – Over 1,000,000 people march in Beijing, demanding democracy. The Chinese government violently suppressed the protests, bringing them to an end on 4 June 1989 following the massacre of hundreds of protestors in Tiananmen Square.