Expunging

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    deletion by an act of expunging or erasing wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of expunge form-of, gerund, participle, present

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erasureexpunctionexpunction

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"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."

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