0 present participle of expunge
1 to rub off or remove information from a piece of writing:
His technique, for example, of expunging material is simply to blot over the passage and then continue beside or even on top of it.
Yet he remains pessimistic about the possibility of ever expunging physical pain from human society.
The discourse of students of the history of science now admits more phenomena to the field, but without completely expunging older modes.
In theory, he suggests, the telos of battery hens could be altered by genetically expunging their urge to nest so that their confined lives would be made more bearable.
However, the three-year period for expunging those penalty points is still too long.
He has said there is no method of diminishing or expunging these great debts except through unrequited exports.
There may be additions, but there is no expunging of minor offences at any time.
This effort was aimed at expunging foreign practices and influences.
