(eks-PUNJ), verb
To rid oneself of an annoyance; to cast out; to get rid of; to forcibly eject.
“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, EXPUNGE it from his memory.” – Marcel Proust, French novelist, essayist, and critic