7 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
verb remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der. Proto-Italic *pungō Latin pungō Latin expungerelbor. English expunge Learned borrowing from Latin expungere.
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