expunge

[gailr]

expunge

Etymology: Latin expungere to mark for deletion by dots, from ex- + pungere to prick -- more at PUNGENT
1 : to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion
2 : to efface completely : DESTROY
3 : to eliminate (as a memory) from one's consciousness
- ex·pung·er noun

I love this word. Seeing a record "cleared" cannot possibly be as viscerally satisfying as seeing it expunged. It's a word that sounds like it means business.

In play: I have no photos of exes. Each is, when replaced, expunged from the album.
-gailr

[Perry]

The third definition is the one that seems most often used. The scond is an easy leap of faith from the third. I had never known about expunge as a synonym for strikethrough.

[Bailey]

[quote="Gailr"][quote]
1 : to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion
2 : to efface completely : DESTROY

mark I'd-rather-have-my-record-expunged-than-be-expunged Bailey

[Stargzer]

The third definition is the one that seems most often used. The scond is an easy leap of faith from the third. I had never known about expunge as a synonym for strikethrough.

I think you struck out there with strikethrough; it's not quite the same. Expunge is something that can happen to court records.

[Perry]

The third definition is the one that seems most often used. The scond is an easy leap of faith from the third. I had never known about expunge as a synonym for strikethrough.

I think you struck out there with strikethrough; it's not quite the same. Expunge is something that can happen to court records.

I was noting this:

1 : to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion

[Stargzer]

Go ahead, ruin a perfectly good pun.

How one marks for deletion can vary, I suppose, both as to style and definition.

[gailr]

How one marks for deletion can vary, I suppose, both as to style and definition.

Wielding a red pen while wearing a fetching "editor" cap is always great fun.
Although the auteur is apt to whine if his purple prose is reduced to a more conventional navy.

Black magic marker works very nicely.
Although, that isn't so much expunged as classified and blacked-out, I suppose.

Scissors work very nicely, too.
And they are faster than piercing a bunch of small dots.
Although, perhaps, not as satisfying...

-gailr

[Perry]

Go ahead, ruin a perfectly good pun.

How one marks for deletion can vary, I suppose, both as to style and definition.

Just as long as we don't Mark Bailey for deletion!

[Stargzer]

...

Scissors work very nicely, too.
And they are faster than piercing a bunch of small dots.
Although, perhaps, not as satisfying...

-gailr

In re-reading this post I was reminded of the scissors scene from Amélie as the ultimate use of this tool in editing.