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  • 71obliterate — I verb abolere, abolish, annihilate, annul, blot out, bring to nothing, cancel, conceal, consume, cover, cover up, defeat, delere, delete, demolish, deracinate, desolate, destroy, devastate, devour, disintegrate, dispel, dissipate, dissolve,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 72cancel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. delete; offset, neutralize; void, annul; postmark. See nullification, compensation, indication, nonpayment. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To mark out] Syn. erase, eradicate, cross off, cross out, wipe out …

    English dictionary for students

  • 73point — [13] ‘Sharp end’ is the etymological notion underlying point. For it comes ultimately from Latin pungere ‘prick, pierce’ (source also of English expunge, poignant and pungent). The neuter form of its past participle, punctum, was used as a noun,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 74punctuation — [16] Punctuation is one of a small family of English words that go back to punctus, the past participle of Latin pungere ‘prick’ (source of English expunge [17], poignant [14], and pungent [16]). They include point, which arrived via Old French;… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 75erase — erase, expunge, cancel, efface, obliterate, blot out, delete mean to strike out something so that it no longer has effect or existence. Erase basically implies a scraping or rubbing out of something that is written, engraved, or painted {erase a… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 76extinguish — 1 *crush, quell, suppress, quench, quash Analogous words: obliterate, expunge, efface, delete (see ERASE): *destroy: *ruin, wreck Antonyms: inflame 2 *abolish, annihilate, abate …

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  • 77ἀπαλειπτέον — one must expunge masc acc sg ἀπαλειπτέον one must expunge neut nom/voc/acc sg …

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  • 78remove — [v1] lift or move object; take off, away abolish, abstract, amputate, carry away, carry off, cart off, clear away, cut out, delete, depose, detach, dethrone, dig out, discard, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, displace, disturb, do away with, doff,… …

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  • 79point — [13] ‘Sharp end’ is the etymological notion underlying point. For it comes ultimately from Latin pungere ‘prick, pierce’ (source also of English expunge, poignant and pungent). The neuter form of its past participle, punctum, was used as a noun,… …

    Word origins

  • 80punctuation — [16] Punctuation is one of a small family of English words that go back to punctus, the past participle of Latin pungere ‘prick’ (source of English expunge [17], poignant [14], and pungent [16]). They include point, which arrived via Old French;… …

    Word origins