Meaning and example
remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
Please strike this remark from the record
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.415 places expunge in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 92.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 92.5%
ostentatiously lofty in style
- Known by
- 92.4%
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- Known by
- 92.7%
make less active or intense
- Known by
- 92.7%
containing or based on a fallacy
- Known by
- 92.4%
corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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