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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ex·punge (ex·punged ; ex·pung·ing) ETYMOLOGY Latin expungere 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 • ex·pung·er noun English Etymology expunge c.1600, 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" (see pungent). Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 expunge ex·punge / ik5spQndV / verb[VN] ~ sth (from sth) (formal) to remove or get rid of sth, such as a name, piece of information or a memory, from a book or list, or from your mind 抹去；除去；删去 SYN erase :
Details of his criminal activities were expunged from the file. 他犯罪活动的详细情况已从档案中删去。 What happened just before the accident was expunged from his memory. 事故前一刻发生的事他都记不得了。 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged ex·punge \ikˈspənj, ek-\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Latin expungere to mark for deletion by dots placed above or below, from ex- ex- (I) + pungere to prick — more at pungent 1. a. : to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion (as a word, line, or sentence) b. : to obliterate (a material record or trace) by any means < expunge the sound of a voice from a tape recording > < expunge a man's fingerprints > c. : drop , exclude , discard , omit < that condemnation stood for priests to read … until the seventeenth century, when it was silently expunged — G.G.Coulton > d. : to cause (something intangible) to be effaced < could not expunge those bitter memories from his mind > < the most primitive ways of thinking may not yet be wholly expunged — William James > 2. a. : to cause the physical destruction of : annihilate < the nuclear explosives that can expunge in a fraction of a second … the units of … civilization — Saturday Review > < the race of man expunging itself by its own hand — Sara H. Hay > b. : to treat or cause to be regarded as nonexistent : consign to oblivion : destroy in any manner : eradicate < released her with a warning and … considered the episode expunged — Josephine Johnson > < expunge the power of labor in politics — Bruce Bliven b. 1889 > < official efforts to expunge the popular hero from history > Synonyms: see erase |
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