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expunge

/ɪkˈspʌnd͡ʒ/

expunge verb: to erase or strike out.

Verb

expunge (third-person singular simple present expunges, present participle expunging, simple past and past participle expunged)

  1. (transitive) To erase or strike out.
    • The gentleman from Texas [Mr. CRAIN] asks unanimous consent to expunge from the RECORD and from the Journal the motion to excuse the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. ALLEN] […]1893, Congressional Record, page 1991
  2. (transitive) To eliminate completely; to annihilate.
  3. (transitive) To delete permanently (e-mail etc.) that was previously marked for deletion but still stored.

expunge meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

expunge in Hindi

expunge
मिटाना miṭānā

expunge in Tamil

அகற்று, அழி, நீக்கு, துடைத்தெறி

expunge in Urdu

پونچھنا

expunge in Bengali

সম্পূর্ণরূপে মুছে ফেলা, বাতিল করা
More languagesFewer languages
expunge in Malayalam
തുടച്ചുമാറ്റുക, നീക്കം ചെയ്യുക
expunge in Kannada
ಅಳಿಸು, ಒರಸು, ತೆಗೆದುಹಾಕು, ತೊಡೆ

Forms of expunge

third-person singular presentexpunges
present participleexpunging
past participleexpunged
pastexpunged

Past tense of expunge: expunged

Origin of expunge

Learned borrowing from Latin expungere.

Words formed from expunge

Words that rhyme with expunge

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about expunge

What does expunge mean?
Expunge means to erase or strike out.
What is expunge in Hindi?
Expunge in Hindi is मिटाना (miṭānā). See Expunge meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is expunge?
Expunge is a verb.
How do you pronounce expunge?
Expunge is pronounced /ɪkˈspʌnd͡ʒ/.
What is the past tense of expunge?
The past tense of expunge is expunged.

Words near expunge in the dictionary

  1. expunctions
  2. expuncts
  3. expunctuation
  4. expunctuations
  5. expungable
  6. expunge
  7. expungeable
  8. expunged
  9. expungee
  10. expungees
  11. expungement

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: expunge (page history and authors); मिटाना (Hindi) (page history and authors); expunge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expunge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expunge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expunge (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expunge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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