expunge
verb (used with object)
to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate.
was expunging
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past progressiveof expunge.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Feinstein maintained that she was expunging “a stain on our values and on our history,” that “torture goes against the very soul of our country,” and that “this is not what Americans do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
While the secret lab was expunging dirty samples in Sochi, WADA’s president, Craig Reedie, was praising Russia’s antidoping effort.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2016
