expropriation
- n taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)
expulsion
- n the act of forcing out someone or something
the child's expulsion from school - n squeezing out by applying pressure
the expulsion of pus from the pimple - n the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
expunging
- n deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
- v remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
expurgation
- n the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
expurgator
- n a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages
Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator