单词 | expunge |
释义 | expungev. 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. 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < v.1602 |
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