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How to pronounce expunge in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms excise, scratch, strike
Type of cancel, delete
Derivation expunction, expunging

Examples of expunge

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A judge in 2005 allowed him to expunge his record for a 1995 battery conviction.
From the abcnews.go.com
The onus is wrongly on them, once exonerated, to expunge their DNA from the bank.
From the fresnobee.com
Those not charged or who are acquitted can ask the state to expunge the record.
From the denverpost.com
This has happened to previous attempts to expunge a term of its negative meaning.
From the ideas.time.com
Frye said he would not prohibit Gilbert from trying to expunge the conviction.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
But most important, he wants to expunge that enormous mistake from his legacy.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Shutting it down will not expunge it, and will only blow up into a negative story.
From the cnn.com
It goes without saying he will need to expunge such destructive inconsistency.
From the guardian.co.uk
We will have to expunge the muddy footprints of the Roosevelts for this to happen.
From the forbes.com
More examples
  • Strike: remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
  • (expunging) expunction: deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
  • In the common law legal system, an expungement proceeding is a type of lawsuit in which a first time offender of a prior criminal conviction seeks that the records of that earlier process be sealed, thereby making the records unavailable through the state or Federal repositories. ...
  • To erase or strike out; To eliminate completely; annihilate; this sense?) (computing) To completely erase a file, document or directory from a computer system
  • (Expunged) A Trade Mark is expunged for failure to respond to any of these office actions: Renewal (Section 46), failure to provide requested information (Section 44), failure to provide evidence of use (Section 45)
  • (Expunged) The contents of the court record are purged. This often happens as part of an agreement when a person is sentenced - if the person completes certain conditions, the court agrees to expunge the records of the case. Note: Only the court records are expunged. ...
  • (Expungement) The process by which the record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed.
  • (Expungement) The removal of a conviction from a person's criminal record.
  • (EXPUNGEMENT) An order of the Court to seal the record of certain convictions if statutory criteria are met. The defendant must initiate the process by filing a petition through the Probation department.