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[ UK /ɛkspˈʌnd‍ʒ/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspəndʒ/ ]
VERB
  1. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
    scratch that remark
    Please strike this remark from the record

How To Use expunge In A Sentence

  • I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
  • Shakespeare's plays are so corrupt, any criticaster has good leave to expunge or expand at will, under a roving commission to hack and hew wheresoever and howsoever it may please him, under the plea of restoring the text. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
  • Details of his criminal activities were expunged from the file.
  • The Mafia is almost totally expunged in Sicily anyhow – at least publicly. Mafia-free wine, White House, Justice Roberts, wine service – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
  • Details of his criminal activities were expunged from the file.
  • The enthusiasm of the people is thus utilized before it has evanesced; but once enlisted (and that for the war) the word should be expunged from the soldier's vocabulary. Memoirs of the War of Secession
  • Fredrik Nyman: So what exactly does it mean to have your conviction expunged? The Volokh Conspiracy » “Down the Memory Hole” Speech Restrictions, Supported by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
  • Also, any ‘questionable language’ in the songs has been expunged.
  • She expunged the sound of his voice from the tape recording.
  • 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.
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