Sound: /ɛks.ˈpʌndʒ/
expunge, transitive verb. Erase, omit
(name from list, passage from book). Hence expunction.
In a sentence: “The incident was
expunged from the record.”
Sponge and expunge
both come from the Latin words spongia and expungo respectively, which mean the
same. I couldn’t find any evidence that the two words are etymologically
related. But however that may be, I find it remarking that this word, expunge
resembles the word sponge. Because that’s exactly what you do with a sponge:
You erase.
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