expunge
ik-SPUNJverbMeaning to erase or remove completely
Memory hook EX-SPONGE: wipe it OUT. Coach Omar takes a big wet sponge and wipes Kai’s name off the list of late players; the mark is gone, expunged.
Once the mistake was found, the school expunged the late mark from her record.
In context The judge agreed to expunge the old charge from his record, so it would no longer appear when employers checked his background.
Similar erase, wipe out, eliminate, delete
Opposite add, insert, record
From Latin expungere, “to mark for deletion with dots”: ex- (out) + pungere (to prick).