expunging
- noun
- /ɪkˈspʌndʒɪŋ/
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expurgación
- After the investigation, the committee voted for the expunging of misleading statements from the official report.
Examples
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The expunging of outdated policies will allow the organization to focus on current practices that better serve the community.
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They were not there, but Dan was here, and God was with him: the atheistic expunging had not occurred.
Fiction book (2002) -
What is the price that we pay for that kind of expunging of memory, where you are living in the present and in the future in America, where we tend to invent and reinvent ourselves?
Academic text (2007) -
Near midnight, the opposition gave way, the Senate passed the expunging resolution 24-19, and the anti-Jackson Senators stormed out of the Senate before the expunging could be completed.
Academic text (2004) -
The lawyer filed a request for the expunging of her client's criminal record to help him move forward with his life.
Synonyms
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2.0
Taking something or someone away from a place
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3.5
The act of removing something you do not need
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6.8
Complete removal of something unwanted
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4.2
A person removes words or parts of a text when editing
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5.9
The act of removing writing or information from a document
Complete removal of information from a document or record
Removing information from a record so it no longer appears
To remove parts that people find offensive from a book or play
Complete removal of something, often by pulling it out by the roots
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Etymology
Expunging comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and pungere 'to prick', and it originally meant 'to prick out' or cut words from a page, a idea you can see in puncture ('to prick'). So, to expunge something is to erase or remove it completely, for example taking it out of a record.