expunge /ɪkˈspʌndʒ/ TEM8 ( expunging, expunged, expunges )

• 1. 

  V-T If you expunge something, you get rid of it completely, because it causes problems or bad feelings. 清除; 抹去 [正式]

  例：

  The revolutionaries expunged domestic opposition.

  革命者清洗了国内反对派。

  例：

  The experience was something he had tried to expunge from his memory.

  这种经历是他过去试图从记忆中抹去的。

  例：

  His name was expunged from the record books.

  他的名字从记录册中被删除了。