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")

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