Definitions for expunge

expunge ex·punge

Spelling: [ik-spuhnj]
IPA: /ɪkˈspʌndʒ/

Expunge is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in expunge (eegnpux).

Definitions for expunge

verb (used with object)

  1. to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate.
  2. to efface; wipe out or destroy.

Origin of expunge

1595-1605; Latin expungere to blot out, erase, equivalent to ex- ex-1 + pungere to prick

Examples for expunge

He re-read his father's letter that he might expunge the reference to the scant living.

When it reached there a motion prevailed to expunge all the records relating to it.

If you may expunge a part, you may expunge the whole; and if it is expunged, how is it kept?

Would he not rather, to make the book consistent, expunge it?

If the purge was intended simply to expunge the opposition, then Papen should have been the first to go.

He would do well to expunge every double-breasted suit from his wardrobe.

He recoiled from the disturbance of the Missouri compromise: they expunge it.

You'll have to expunge 'guess' and 'reckon' from your vocabulary.

King: We must expunge from our society the myths and half-truths that engender such groundless fears as these.

Mr. B. returned to the resolution which it was proposed to expunge.

Word Value for expunge
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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