Expunction

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  • noun. The act of expunging or the condition of being expunged.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of expunging or erasing; removal by erasure; a blotting out or leaving out.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of expunging or erasing.
  • noun. The condition of being expunged.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
  • Word Usage
    "The fact of the conviction, the fact of the pardon, the fact of the expunction (if that is the procedure used) are all public acts of the government."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deletion