expungeverb [ T ]
uk/ɪkˈspʌndʒ/us/ɪkˈspʌndʒ/formalto rub off or remove information from a piece of writing:
His name has been expunged from the list of members.
to cause something to be forgotten:
She has been unable to expunge the details of the accident from her memory.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- haemodialysis
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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