ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Expunging

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Expunging is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of expunge.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of expunge.

More Meanings

  1. The act by which something is expunged; a deletion.

Example Sentences

Neither do they seem to remember the many alterations, additions, and expungings made by great authors, in those treatises which they prepare for the publick.

Word Forms

Synonyms for expunging

Depending on context, synonyms include erasure, expunction.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include expunction, erasure, effacement, expunctuation, expungement, expungee.

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