expunge

Verb

1. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; “Please strike this remark from the record”; “scratch that remark”
   • Synonyms
     • strike
     • scratch
     • excise
   • Less specific
     • delete
     • cancel
   • Related
     • deletion
     • excision
     • cut
     • expunction
     • expunging
     • erasure
     • expunction
     • expunging
     • erasure

expunge - LookUp

Urban Dictionary

**to obliterate completely, anihilate **

verb

1. obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant) the kind of man that could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory

Origin

early 17th century : from Latin expungere mark for deletion by means of points , from ex- out + pungere to prick

Thesaurus

Verb

1. that moment can never be expunged from his memory

Similar Words: erase remove delete rub out wipe out efface cross out strike out blot out blank out cancel annul destroy obliterate eradicate extinguish eliminate abolish annihilate extirpate