Usually means: Erasing or removing from record.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word expunging:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. expunging: Merriam-Webster
  2. expunging: Collins English Dictionary
  3. expunging: Vocabulary.com
  4. expunging: Wordnik
  5. expunging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. expunging: Wiktionary
  7. expunging: Dictionary.com
  8. Expunging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. expunging: Rhymezone
  10. Expunging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. expunging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. expunging: FreeDictionary.org
  13. expunging: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. expunging: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. expunging: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. expunging: Legal dictionary
  3. expunging: Financial dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expunging)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is expunged; a deletion.

Similar:
expunction, erasure, effacement, expunctuation, expungement, expungee, expelling, deletion, expulsation, elimination, more...

Opposite:
retaining, keeping, preserving, maintaining

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Similar:
expunction, erasure, effacement, expunctuation, expungement, expungee, expelling, deletion, expulsation, elimination, more...

Opposite:
retaining, keeping, preserving, maintaining



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