Expunge Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭk-spŭnj
To remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. annul
  2. blot
  3. cancel
  4. cross
  5. delete
  6. efface
  7. erase
  8. obliterate
  9. rub
  10. scratch
  11. strike
  12. undo
  13. wipe
  14. x
  15. vacate
Destroy, obliterate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. erase
  2. cancel
  3. delete
  4. efface
  5. annihilate
  6. dele
  7. strike
  8. destroy
  9. eliminate
  10. eradicate
  11. scratch
  12. obliterate
  13. remove
  14. excise
Antonyms:
  1. bear
  2. create
  3. construct
  4. build
To eliminate completely; wipe out:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. erase

Expunge Sentence Examples

  • Perhaps it will expunge the hate and tragedy this room has seen.

  • Thus 3300 defenders were able to repulse and even to "expunge from the battlefield" the whole of the Sevastopol column, except that portion of it which drifted away to its left and joined Pavlov.

  • For Christians to deny the Sonship of Jesus would mean that they should expunge all references in the Holy Injil to this title.

  • It was plundered by Henry VIII., to whom the memory of Becket was specially obnoxious; but the reformers were powerless to expunge the name of the saint from the Roman calendar, on which it still remains.