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expunging

/ik-spuhnj/US // ɪkˈspʌndʒ //UK // (ɪkˈspʌndʒ) //

废除公职,除名,废除,删除

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·punged, ex·pung·ing.

    • : to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate.
    • : to efface; wipe out or destroy.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdestroy, obliterate

Examples

  • Last week, state lawmakers approved a measure that would automatically expunge certain offenses from a juvenile’s record, a move they already had approved for adults.

  • Even then, the data might not contain entries for defendants who had their records expunged, which would happen for those who successfully complete pretrial intervention, a program for first-time offenders.

  • The city attorney’s office has also said it wouldn’t fight anyone’s efforts to have the charge expunged from their record.

  • “Our office would not stand in the way of anyone’s effort to have this charge expunged from their record,” Nemchik wrote.

  • Even if a person goes free, his or her personal data remains listed among criminal records unless special steps are taken to expunge it.

  • King: We must expunge from our society the myths and half-truths that engender such groundless fears as these.

  • He would do well to expunge every double-breasted suit from his wardrobe.

  • If the purge was intended simply to expunge the opposition, then Papen should have been the first to go.

  • On February 25 a motion was proposed and carried to expunge the entry of the vote of thanks.

  • I either soften or expunge many villanous, seditious Whig strokes, which had crept into it.

  • Expunge from the Bible all record of actual revelation and reference thereto, and what remains?

  • It is to expunge from your statute-book all support of Slavery.

  • It is perhaps well that we should expunge the word absolute from our vocabularies.