Associations to the word «Expunge»

Wiktionary

EXPUNGE, verb. To erase or strike out.
EXPUNGE, verb. To eliminate completely; annihilate.

Dictionary definition

EXPUNGE, verb. Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats