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dispunct

/dɪsˈpʌŋkt/

dispunct verb: to expunge, to erase; to mark for erasure.

Verb

dispunct (third-person singular simple present dispuncts, present participle dispuncting, simple past and past participle dispuncted)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To expunge, to erase; to mark for erasure.
    • I desire the Reder then so to take me, as though I did not deal here withal, nor speak of the matter, but utterly to haue pretermitted, and dispuncted the same.1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC
    • ... all beyond Carthage, as Mauritania, & c., would wind up into a small inconsiderable tract, as being dispuncted by no great states or colonies.1859, Thomas De Quincey, Writings, page 162

Forms of dispunct

third-person singular presentdispuncts
present participledispuncting
past participledispuncted
pastdispuncted

Origin of dispunct

See dispunge.

Questions about dispunct

What does dispunct mean?
Dispunct means to expunge, to erase; to mark for erasure.
What part of speech is dispunct?
Dispunct is a verb.
How do you pronounce dispunct?
Dispunct is pronounced /dɪsˈpʌŋkt/.
What is the past tense of dispunct?
The past tense of dispunct is dispuncted.

Words near dispunct in the dictionary

  1. disprovides
  2. disproviding
  3. disproving
  4. dispulsion
  5. dispulsions
  6. dispunct
  7. dispunge
  8. dispunged
  9. dispunges
  10. dispunging
  11. dispunishable

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