expunging
English
editVerb
editexpunging
- present participle and gerund of expunge
Noun
editexpunging (plural expungings)
- The act by which something is expunged; a deletion.
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman:
- Neither do they seem to remember the many alterations, additions, and expungings made by great authors, in those treatises which they prepare for the publick.