Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: expunge
IPA transcription: [ɪksp'ʌndʒ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: strike, scratch, expunge, excise
    Meaning: remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
Usage examples
  • We must also expunge the verse, which tells us how Pluto feared,
  • A bruised child wailing in the street, his small world for the moment utterly black and cruel before him, does not fetch his unhappiness from sophisticated comparisons or irrational envy; nor can any compensations and celestial harmonies supervening later ever expunge or justify that moment's bitterness.