Crossword-Solution: EXPUNGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Expunge | v. t. | To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences. |
| Expunge | v. t. | To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “EXPUNGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| 17 down | 1 answer |
| Strike, as from a formal record | 1 answer |
| Erase, as a criminal record | 1 answer |
| Remove offensive material from a text | 3 answers |
| make illegible | 6 answers |
| Scratch out? | 7 answers |
| Strike-out | 13 answers |
| Strike out | 15 answers |
| Dele | 16 answers |
| Expurgate | 18 answers |
| Rub out | 21 answers |
| blot out | 25 answers |
| Deface | 25 answers |
| Take out __ | 25 answers |
| Erase | 31 answers |
| Wipe out | 34 answers |
| Delete | 36 answers |
| exterminate | 41 answers |
| Sponge | 42 answers |
| efface | 43 answers |
| annihilate | 45 answers |
| BLACK out | 48 answers |
| eradicate | 51 answers |
| Abolish | 51 answers |
| Obliterate | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXPUNGE (5)
Won't you please expunge that unfortunate fifteen minutes at the porte-cochere last June, and remember instead the fifteen hours I spent reading the Kallikak Family? I would like to feel that we're friends again.
Can't we be sensible and expunge them? The fire has brought out such a lot of unexpected kindliness and charity, I wish it might bring out a little from you.
Neither would it have been possible from such a correspondence to expunge the record of those trivialities which make up the chief part of life, even in surroundings so romantic and unusual as Stevenson in these years had chosen for himself.
And my blood tingles and my soul aches with the desire to expunge that man from life with my own hand.
President: It is now three years since the resolve was adopted by the Senate, which it is my present motion to expunge from the journal.
Quotes with EXPUNGE (3)
Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.
Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul
You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1981–2024).