expunge
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1. trans. To strike out, blot out, erase, omit (a name or word from
a list, a phrase or passage from a book or record).

    2. fig. To wipe out, efface, annihilate, annul, destroy, put an end
to.

    3.    {dag}a. To strike out the name of (a person) from a book or
list. Obs. Hence    b. To get rid of, remove.

    Hence ex{sm}punger, one who expunges, or seeks to expunge. ex{sm}punging
vbl. n. and ppl. a.