the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of expunging or erasing; removal by erasure; a blotting out or leaving out.
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n. deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
Word Usage
"By this process the essence of two or more old comedies is extracted; their characters and plots amalgamated; and the whole "rectified" by the careful expunction of equivocal passages."