1. to erase or remove completely (especially from a record)
Usage: legal context
2. to destroy or obliterate completely
Usage: formal

Examples

• The court expunges juvenile records after five years.
• She successfully petitioned to have her conviction expunged.
• The new law expunges certain minor offenses from criminal records.
• Time never expunges the memory of that tragic day.
• The company expunges all traces of the failed product from its history.
• His lawyer argued that the judge should expunge the testimony from the record.