expunge
verb
1 expunge
Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.
synonyms: excise, scratch, strike.
Roget 552:
efface,
obliterate,
erase,
raze†,
rase†,
expunge,
cancel;
blot out,
take out,
rub out,
scratch out,
strike out,
wipe out,
wash out,
sponge out;
wipe off,
rub off;
wipe away;
deface,
render illegible;
draw the pen through,
apply the sponge.
be effaced
&c.;
leave no trace
etc.
550;
leave not a rack behind"
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Roget 162:
be destroyed
&c.;
perish;
fall to the ground;
tumble,
topple;
go to pieces,
fall to pieces;
break up;
crumble to dust;
go to the dogs,
go to the wall,
go to smash,
go to shivers,
go to wreck,
go to pot,
go to wrack and ruin;
go by the board,
go all to smash;
be all over,
be all up,
be all with;
totter to its fall.
destroy;
do away with,
make away with;
nullify;
annual
etc.
756;
sacrifice,
demolish;
tear up;
overturn,
overthrow,
overwhelm;
upset,
subvert,
put an end to;
seal the doom of,
do in,
do for,
dish [Slang],
undo;
break up,
cut up;
break down,
cut down,
pull down,
mow down,
blow down,
beat down;
suppress,
quash,
put down,
do a job on;
cut short,
take off,
blot out;
dispel,
dissipate,
dissolve;
consume.
smash,
crash,
quell,
squash,
squelch,
crumple up,
shatter,
shiver;
batter to pieces,
tear to pieces,
crush to pieces,
cut to pieces,
shake to pieces,
pull to pieces,
pick to pieces;
laniate†;
nip;
tear to rags,
tear to tatters;
crush to atoms,
knock to atoms;
ruin;
strike out;
throw over,
knock down over;
fell,
sink,
swamp,
scuttle,
wreck,
shipwreck,
engulf,
ingulf†,
submerge;
lay in ashes,
lay in ruins;
sweep away,
erase,
wipe out,
expunge,
raze;
level with the dust,
level with the ground;
waste;
atomize,
vaporize.
deal destruction,
desolate,
devastate,
lay waste,
ravage gut;
disorganize;
dismantle
etc.
(render useless)
645;
devour,
swallow up,
sap,
mine,
blast,
bomb,
blow to smithereens,
drop the big one,
confound;
exterminate,
extinguish,
quench,
annihilate;
snuff out,
put out,
stamp out,
trample out;
lay in the dust,
trample in the dust;
prostrate;
tread under foot;
crush under foot,
trample under foot;
lay the ax to the root of;
make short work of,
make clean sweep of,
make mincemeat of;
cut up root and branch,
chop into pieces,
cut into ribbons;
fling to the winds,
scatter to the winds;
throw overboard;
strike at the root of,
sap the foundations of,
spring a mine,
blow up,
ravage with fire and sword;
cast to the dogs;
eradicate
etc.
301.
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Dutch: verwijderen, uitwissen
Moby thesaurus: KO, abbreviate, abridge, annihilate, annul, black out, blot, blot out, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, call off, cancel, censor, complete, cross out, cut, dele, delete, discard, dispose of, drop, drop the curtain, edit, edit out, efface, end off, eradicate, erase, exclude, expurgate, extinguish, finalize, finish, fold up, get it over, get over with, get through with, give the quietus, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock out, obliterate, omit, perfect, polish off, put paid to, raze, rescind, rub out, rule out, scrag, scratch, scratch out, shoot down, sponge, sponge out, strike, strike off, strike out, void, wipe out, zap ... show more.
expunged
Moby thesaurus: SOL, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, at an end, canceled, complete, concluded, dead, decided, defunct, deleted, done, done for, done with, ended, extinct, fini, finished, kaput, over, perfected, set at rest, settled, shot, terminated, through, through with, washed up, wiped out, wound up, zapped ... show more.
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