Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-PUNGE, v.t. [expunj'; L. expungo; ex and pungo, to thrust, to prick.]

1. To blot out, as with a pen; to rub out; to efface, as words; to obliterate. We expunge single words or whole lines or sentences.
2. To efface; to strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expunge an offense. Sandys. Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. Pope.