as in to erase
to destroy all traces of
time and the weather have expunged any evidence that a thriving community once existed here
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Recent Examples of expunge
The ban on pronouns came amid Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's sweeping push to expunge all diversity, equity and inclusion policies from the military.
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
At the town hall, Ernst said Medicaid cuts would expunge 1.4 million undocumented immigrants currently on the rolls so that the money could be used to shore up benefits for those who do qualify.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 2 June 2025
His military disciplinary record has now been expunged by the pardon.
—Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Many of the students suing say their charges shouldn’t be held against them because they were dropped or expunged.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2025
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
At the town hall, Ernst said Medicaid cuts would expunge 1.4 million undocumented immigrants currently on the rolls so that the money could be used to shore up benefits for those who do qualify.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 2 June 2025
His military disciplinary record has now been expunged by the pardon.
—Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Many of the students suing say their charges shouldn’t be held against them because they were dropped or expunged.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expunge
Verb
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Federal climate science is being systematically erased.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
1 July 2025
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The Human Constant Technological revolutions do not erase the need for human judgment.—
Solange Charas,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Davis has partnered with multiple programs to eradicate childhood hunger in the U.S. and recently launched the Davis-Tennon Foundation.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 June 2025
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Vaccines eradicated smallpox and dramatically reduced infant deaths from measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and tetanus.—
Kelsey Piper,
Vox,
27 June 2025
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Lethal injection is the only method of execution after firing squads were abolished in 2011.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
26 June 2025
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Beginning in the 1950s, between 20 million and 25 million households gained ownership of plots of land through the government’s scheme to abolish the colonial-era zamindari system of tax-collecting landlords.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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In September 2024, the same month as the pager attack and assassination of Hezbollah’s leader, Israel launched the most extensive campaign of airstrikes in the air force’s history hitherto, destroying much of Hezbollah’s strategic surface-to-surface missile stockpiles.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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In Alzheimer’s disease, abnormal chemical changes cause the protein tau to stick to other tau molecules, which eventually form the hallmark toxic tangles that destroy neurons and the connections, or synapses, between them.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 June 2025
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“Expunge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expunge. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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