expunge
verb (used with object)
to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate.
had expunged
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past perfectof expunge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Unbeknown to the authors, the editor had expunged any references to faith from the book.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
I thought that journalism had expunged all of my emotional fandom.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2017
After about five months, some of the bacteria couldn't survive without chlorouracil and they had expunged roughly 90% of the thymine from their genomes.
From Nature ● Nov. 21, 2012
That was too much for Thatcher, whose proud boast was that she had expunged every trace of the third zero.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whittier had expunged his name from the list of the great and the good.
From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
