Usually means: Erase or remove completely; obliterate.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word expunge:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. expunge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. expunge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expunge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expunge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expunge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expunge, expunge: Wordnik
  7. expunge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expunge: Wiktionary
  9. expunge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expunge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expunge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. expunge: Dictionary.com
  13. expunge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Expunge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Expunge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. expunge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. expunge: Rhymezone
  18. Expunge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. expunge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. expunge: Free Dictionary
  21. expunge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. expunge: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. expunge: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Expunge: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Expunge: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  8. Expunge: Investopedia
  9. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. expunge: Legal dictionary
  11. Expunge: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expunge: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expunge: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expunge: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See expunged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To erase or strike out.
verb:  (transitive) To eliminate completely; to annihilate.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To delete permanently (e-mail etc.) that was previously marked for deletion but still stored.

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    black,     gray,     white,     charcoal,     silver,     onyx,     smoke,     gunmetal,     shadow,     midnight



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