expunging

English

Verb

expunging

1. present participle and gerund of expunge

Noun

expunging (plural expungings)

1. 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.

Related terms

• expungement

Anagrams

• expugning