expunging
present participle ofexpunge
expunge
verb[T]
formaluk/ɪkˈspʌndʒ/us/ɪkˈspʌndʒ/toruboff orremoveinformationfrom apieceof writing:
Hisnamehas been expungedfromthelistofmembers.
tocausesomething to beforgotten:
She has beenunableto expunge thedetailsof theaccidentfromhermemory.
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandonment
- banish
- be scattered to the four windsidiom
- bin
- castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
- dumping
- erase
- erasure
- evacuate
- evacuation
- exorcism
- expunge
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- shuck
- shucksomethingoff
- shufflesomethingoff
- sling
- toss
- turf
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Forgetting and forgetfulness
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
His technique, for example, ofexpungingmaterial is simply to blot over the passage and then continue beside or even on top of it.
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Yet he remains pessimistic about the possibility of everexpungingphysical pain from human society.
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The discourse of students of the history of science now admits more phenomena to the field, but without completelyexpungingolder modes.
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In theory, he suggests, the telos of battery hens could be altered by geneticallyexpungingtheir urge to nest so that their confined lives would be made more bearable.
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However, the three-year period forexpungingthose penalty points is still too long.
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He has said there is no method of diminishing orexpungingthese great debts except through unrequited exports.
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There may be additions, but there is noexpungingof minor offences at any time.
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This effort was aimed atexpungingforeign practices and influences.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These cavaliers of righteousness swept through the lands,expungingthe taint of demonic contamination wherever they found it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The reward for this is 300 million yen and the chance to start their lives over by alsoexpungingtheir criminal records.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Punishing (it) protects reputation only at the cost ofexpunginga genuinely useful mechanism for public debate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Tyres had suffered a financial collapse in 2014 and withdrew from the league,expungingall their results and making all their players free agents.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Expungingcriminal records would carry other benefits as well, removing or dramatically minimizing obstacles towards obtaining housing, education, and the restoration of voting rights.
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- unexercised
- unexpected
- unexpected benefit
- unexpected bonus
- unexpected consequence
- unexpected death
- unexpected delay
- unexpected direction
- unexpected event
- unexpected guest
- unexpected loss
- unexpectedly
- unexpected obstacle
- unexpected outcome
- unexpected place
- unexpected quarter
- unexpected result
- unexpected source
- unexpected success
- unexpected turn
- unexpected visitor
- unexpired
- unexpired term
- unexplained
- unexplained death