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单词 expunge
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expungev.

/ɛkˈspʌndʒ/
Etymology: < Latin expungĕre to mark for deletion (a name in a list) by points set above or below, < ex- out + pungĕre to prick: see puncture n., punge v.The Latin word was by the earlier Latin-English lexicographers taken to denote actual obliteration by pricking. The English use is probably influenced by phonetic association with sponge.
1. transitive. To strike out, blot out, erase, omit (a name or word from a list, a phrase or passage from a book or record).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > writing, etc.
deface1340
razea1393
blot1530
to put out1530
delete1540
dispunct1570
obliterate1578
expunct1596
expunge1602
erase1605
dele1612
dispunge1622
retrench1645
liturate1656
excise1663
to scratch out1712
efface1737
extrapolate1831
1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 68 These words..were ordered by the Court to be expunged or blotted out.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 67 Some of after-Ages..purposely expunged the Year (..the Date of this Epitaph).
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 23. ¶3 Having expunged the Passages which had given him Offence.
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 47 His office was expunged from the breviary.
1879 M. Arnold Guide Eng. Lit. in Mixed Ess. 184 It is a gain to shorten it by expunging anything superfluous.
2. figurative. To wipe out, efface, annihilate, annul, destroy, put an end to.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence
dilghec897
defacec1386
annul1395
anientec1400
refer?c1400
extinct1484
annihil1490
delete1495
out-terma1500
perspoil1523
extaintc1540
extinguish1555
blot1561
wipe1564
to cut the throat of1565
annihilate1567
dissipatea1575
annihilate1586
nullify1609
nullize1615
expunge1628
nothing1637
null1647
extramund1654
be-nothing1674
erase1728
obliterate1798
simoom1821
to tear to shreds1837
snuff1852
mop1859
to take out1900
napoo1915
naught1958
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1882) 13 Neither had there ever been so many cities expunged and made desolate.
1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Iob 11 in Paraphr. Divine Poems Wilt thou not..expunge th' offence?
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 432. ⁋9 Reflexions of this nature have expunged all Prejudice out of my Heart.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation v. 160 The infidel argument of astronomers goes to expunge a natural perfection from the character of God.
1871 C. Davies Metric Syst. ii. 42 We have expunged the yard, used in connection with the arm, more or less in every family.
3.
a. To strike out the name of (a person) from a book or list. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > do without or get rid of > strike out the name of
expunge1616
1616–61 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. 303 Would I might expunge this young rich ward.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 158 The Court was moved to expunge those Witnesses, which made most against the King.
b. Hence, to get rid of, remove.
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1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost vii. 192 To expunge God from Science.

Derivatives

exˈpunger n. one who expunges, or seeks to expunge.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation > one who annihilates
extinguisher1562
expungerc1611
exterminator1611
annihilator1666
decreator1678
blotter out1827
exterminatrix1880
exterminatress1891
liquidator1949
zapper1969
c1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliad (1857) xvi. Comm. II. 104 Which is as poorly conceited of the expungers as the rest of the places in Homer that have groaned or laughed under their castigations.
1875 N. Sargent Public Men I. 339 The expungers had the numbers.
exˈpunging n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > of writing, text, etc.
cancellingc1440
cancellation1535
deleting1544
deletion1590
expunction1606
retrenching1647
retrenchment1668
erasement1721
expunging1721
erasure1755
excision1858
redaction1962
1721 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman 9 The many Alterations, Additions and Expungings made by great Authors.
1830 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets 43 The..Iliad, amounting after all curtailments and expungings to upwards of 15,000 lines.
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Expunging, blotting out, effacing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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