英语词汇“expunge”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	expunge
释义	ex·punge \ikˈspənj, ek-\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Latin expungere to mark for deletion by dots placed above or below, from ex- ex- (I) + pungere to prick — more at pungent 1. a. : to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion (as a word, line, or sentence) b. : to obliterate (a material record or trace) by any means < expunge the sound of a voice from a tape recording > < expunge a man's fingerprints > c. : drop, exclude, discard, omit < that condemnation stood for priests to read … until the seventeenth century, when it was silently expunged — G.G.Coulton > d. : to cause (something intangible) to be effaced < could not expunge those bitter memories from his mind > < the most primitive ways of thinking may not yet be wholly expunged — William James > 2. a. : to cause the physical destruction of : annihilate < the nuclear explosives that can expunge in a fraction of a second … the units of … civilization — Saturday Review > < the race of man expunging itself by its own hand — Sara H. Hay > b. : to treat or cause to be regarded as nonexistent : consign to oblivion : destroy in any manner : eradicate < released her with a warning and … considered the episode expunged — Josephine Johnson > < expunge the power of labor in politics — Bruce Bliven b. 1889 > < official efforts to expunge the popular hero from history > Synonyms: see erase
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