Expunge vs Expel - What's the difference?
expunge | expel |
To erase or strike out.
To eliminate completely; annihilate.
To eject or erupt.
(obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
* , II.xi:
To remove from membership.
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To deport.
As verbs the difference between expunge and expel
is that expunge is to erase or strike out while expel is to eject or erupt.expunge
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(expung)Derived terms
* expunctionexpel
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- But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell .
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