Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - expunge
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Expunge
expunge
(expunges, expunging, expunged) If you expunge something, you get rid of it completely, because it causes problems or bad feelings. (FORMAL) The revolutionaries expunged domestic opposition... The experience was something he had tried to expunge from his memory... His name was expunged from the record books. VERB: V n, V n from n, V n from n
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transitive verb (~d; expunging) Etymology: Latin ~re to mark for deletion by dots, from ex- + pungere to prick — more at pungent Date: 1602 1. to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion 2. to efface completely ; destroy 3. to eliminate (as a memory) from one's consciousness • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (foll. by from) erase, remove (esp. a passage from a book or a name from a list). Derivatives expunction n. expunger n. Etymology: L expungere expunct- (as EX-(1), pungere prick) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. книж. вычеркивать, исключать (из списка, текста) to expunge smth. from the record —- вычеркнуть что-л. из протокола time had expunged from his memory all recollections of the event —- время стерло в его памяти всякое воспоминание о том событии 2. книж. стирать (резинкой); соскабливать 3. книж. уничтожать, ликвидировать, стирать с лица земли 4. книж. удалять, убирать (кого-л.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. вычеркивать (из списка, из книги) (from) False statements about events in our history must be expunged from classroom books. Syn: see erase ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v formal 1 to remove a name from a list, piece of information, or book 2 to make someone forget something unpleasant (I tried to expunge the whole episode from my memory.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1602, from L. expungere "mark (a name on a list) for deletion" by pricking dots above or below it, lit. "prick out," from ex- "out" + pungere "to prick, stab." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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