inexpungible

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Also spelled inexpungable

US /ˌɪnɪkˈspʌndʒəbəl/ UK /ˌɪnɪkˈspʌndʒəbəl/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    impossible to erase, delete, remove, or blot out completely

    The archival copy left an inexpungible record of the original decision.

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Synonyms
1 adj · impossible to erase,... indelibleineradicableunerasable
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Opposites
expungibleerasableremovable
Word family
Related forms expungeindelibleexpunction

Etymology

From in- ("not") + expungible, from expunge. Expunge comes from Latin expungere ("to mark for deletion, blot out"), literally "to prick out," from ex- ("out") + pungere ("to prick").

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