expunging
61erasure — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. cancellation, deletion, expunging, obliteration, canceling, rubbing out, blotting out, sponging out, crossing out, scratching out, abrasion, effacing, deleting, eradication, wiping out, striking out. II (Roget s Thesaurus… …
62overwhelming — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In the act of destroying] Syn. conquering, subjugating, defeating, subduing, overpowering, overthrowing, crushing, routing, ruining, smashing, wiping out, extinguishing, invading, occupying, ravaging, devastating,… …
63expunge — c.1600, from L. expungere prick out, blot out, mark (a name on a list) for deletion by pricking dots above or below it, lit. prick out, from ex out (see EX (Cf. ex )) + pungere to prick, stab (see PUNGENT (Cf. pungent)). Related: Expunged;… …
64expunge — [[t]ɪkspʌ̱nʤ[/t]] expunges, expunging, expunged VERB If you expunge something, you get rid of it completely, because it causes problems or bad feelings. [FORMAL] [V n] The revolutionaries expunged domestic opposition and mobilized their resources …
65erasure — n. Obliteration, effacing, expunging, cancellation, cancelling, scratching out, rasure (obsolescent) …
66fearful — 1 Fearful, apprehensive, afraid are comparable when they mean inspired or moved by fear. In such use they are normally followed by of, that, or lest, afraid being never and fearful and apprehensive infrequently used attributively in this sense.… …
67work — n 1 Work, labor, travail, toil, drudgery, grind are comparable when they mean effort or exertion directed to the accomplishment of an end, or an employment or activity which involves such expenditure of effort or exertion. Work is the most… …
68cancellation — n 1. voidance, avoidance, cancel, disannulment, annulment, nullification, Law. defeasance; quashing, invalidation, vitiation, Obs. vacatur, disenactment, disestablishment, setting aside; cessation, Law. nolle prosequi, discontinuance, suspension; …
69destruction — n 1. demolition, wipe out, pulverization, wrecking, wreckage, rack and ruin; razing, gutting, felling, prostration, leveling; pulling down, tearing down, taking down, bringing down, breaking down, throwing down, casting down, beating down,… …
70nullification — n 1. annulment, annulling, disan nulment, voidance, avoidance, Law. defeasance; quashing, invalidation, vitiation, Obs. vacatur, disen actment, disestablishment, setting aside; cancellation, discharge; repeal, revoking, revocation, rescinding,… …
