What is another word for expunging?

Pronunciation: [ɛkspˈʌnd͡ʒɪŋ] (IPA)

Expunging is a legal term that refers to the act of erasing or eliminating something from the record. There are various synonyms used for the word expunging, which include erasing, deleting, obliterating, purging, wiping out, excising, abolishing, annihilating, effacing, extinguishing, annihilating, eradicating, and nullifying. In legal terms, expunging is the process of striking out the record or removing it entirely. It refers to instances such as clearing one's criminal record or annulment of certain legal documents. The usage of synonyms for expunging depends on the legal context and nature of the matter being handled, but all mean a similar action of eliminating or correcting a record.

What are the hypernyms for Expunging?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Expunging

Two only remain, of essential consideration, to wit, the want of a bill of rights, and the expunging the principle of necessary rotation in the offices of President and Senator.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
Those were for Rosalie-they are for all-but frets upon the sands of time that each most kind expunging day, flowing from dawn to sunset like a tide, heals and obliterates.
"This Freedom"
A. S. M. Hutchinson
I believed that, and looking out over the Cobden Statue, I appointed that moment of our union for an expunging of all-all, all-that had gone before.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions

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