expunge
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- v remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- The Speaker of the Parliament expunged the personal attack made on Mr Holden during the course of the debate.
- James completed over 300 hours of community service so that the Judge would expunge his criminal record.
- But the reforms Deng activated should not be allowed to expunge the ongoing effects of the changes he abandoned or chose not to make.