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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
expunge .
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Examples
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Some people even wanted to see his name expunged from the place altogether.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph John Preston 2012
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None has succeeded from having his or her name expunged from Washington's kingpin list.
SFGate: Top News Stories By DONNA BRYSON 2011
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None has succeeded from having his or her name expunged from Washington's kingpin list.
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So if the R-word is to be the new N-word, maybe Mr. Emanuel's time could be better spent getting the term expunged from his boss's two autobiographies.
Latest Articles 2010
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Were nationalism and patriotism to be expunged from the human heart, I doubt that a single human life would be saved.
War on Terror 2010
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Were nationalism and patriotism to be expunged from the human heart, I doubt that a single human life would be saved.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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Should be summarily executed and expunged from the records.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Were nationalism and patriotism to be expunged from the human heart, I doubt that a single human life would be saved.
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Should be summarily executed and expunged from the records.
Planned Changes to the Dictionary Dungeekin 2009
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Examples of things that should be expunged is circumcision on women, marriage based on ethnicity/kinship, superstitious beliefs and practices (example ogbanje) etc etc.
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