expunged
Struck from records
Expunged means completely erased or removed, as if it never existed.
The word typically appears in legal contexts where records are officially deleted: His juvenile conviction was expunged.
More broadly, anything can be expunged from memory, history, or the record: She wanted that chapter of her life expunged.
Permanently removed
- removedTaken from position
- erasedRemoved by rubbing
- strickenSeriously affected by adversity
- sealedClosed to prevent entry
vacated · annulled · cleared · dismissed · overturned · pardoned · exonerated · acquitted
Utterly and completely destroyed
- annihilatedCompletely destroyed, nothing remaining
- eradicatedTotally destroyed or removed
- exterminatedTotally destroyed, none remaining
- wiped outUtterly without remaining energy
eliminated · destroyed · extirpated · effaced · abolished · liquidated · stamped out · rooted out
Officially removed from view
- suppressedForcibly held down
- censoredSuppressed from publication
- sanitizedCleansed of contaminants
- silencedRendered unable to speak
banned · prohibited · blacked out · classified · restricted · withheld · scrubbed · struck
No longer recalled
- lostUnable to navigate
- vanishedDisappeared from sight
- fadedLost original color
- unrememberedNot kept in mind
obliterated · airbrushed · unpersoned · damnatio memoriae · written out
deleted
Permanently removed
sealed · vacated · annulled · cleared · dismissed · overturned · pardoned · exonerated · acquitted · rehabilitated
obliterated
Utterly and completely destroyed
- annihilatedCompletely destroyed, nothing remaining
- eradicatedTotally destroyed or removed
- exterminatedTotally destroyed, none remaining
wiped out · eliminated · destroyed · extirpated · effaced · abolished · liquidated · stamped out · rooted out · blotted out
redacted
Officially removed from view
- suppressedForcibly held down
- censoredSuppressed from publication
- sanitizedCleansed of contaminants
silenced · banned · prohibited · blacked out · classified · restricted · withheld · scrubbed · struck · excised
forgotten
No longer recalled
unremembered · obliterated · airbrushed · unpersoned · damnatio memoriae · written out
- redactedredacted, censored, blacked out, deleted, erased
- removedremoved, taken out, eliminated, deleted, erased
- gonegone, absent, away, departed, missing
- destroyeddestroyed, demolished, annihilated, obliterated, decimated
- puritypure, purity, pristine, spotless, spotlessness
- verdictsguilty verdict, guilty, not guilty, acquitted, innocent
expungedrecorded
Captured for posterity
created · inserted · entered · added · established
- record expungementLegal removal of convictions