dispunct

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/dɪsˈpʌŋkt/

verb

To expunge, to erase; to mark for erasure.

Scrabble 13
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Meanings

verbdispunct (third-person singular simple present dispuncts, present participle dispuncting, simple past and past participle dispuncted)

present singular third person dispuncts · participle present dispuncting · participle past dispuncted · past dispuncted

  1. obsoleterareTo expunge, to erase; to mark for erasure.

    ... all beyond Carthage, as Mauritania, & c., would wind up into a small inconsiderable tract, as being dispuncted by no great states or colonies.

    1859, Thomas De Quincey, Writings, page 162
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    I desire the Reder then so to take me, as though I did not deal here withal, nor speak of the matter, but utterly to haue pretermitted, and dispuncted the same.

    1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

Origin

See dispunge.

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APA

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MLA

“dispunct.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispunct. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dispunct,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispunct.

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