Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of expunge
nounexpunging (plural expungings)
plural expungings
- The act by which something is expunged; a deletion.
Neither do they seem to remember the many alterations, additions, and expungings made by great authors, in those treatises which they prepare for the publick.
1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman
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expunging. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expunging
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“expunging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expunging. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “expunging,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expunging.
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