Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun expunging
1 sense of expunging
Sense 1
expunction, expunging, erasure -- (deletion by an act of expunging or erasing)
=> deletion -- (the act of deleting something written or printed)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb expunge
1 sense of expunge
Sense 1
strike, scratch, expunge, excise -- (remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark")
=> delete, cancel -- (remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list")