What's the difference between cancel and expunged?

Cancel


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
  • (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
  • (v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
  • (v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
  • (v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
  • (v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
  • (v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
  • (v. i.) The part thus suppressed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
  • (3) This observation seriously challenges the hypothesis that SCE cancellation results as a consequence of persistence of the lesions induced by these agents.
  • (4) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
  • (5) "We won't cancel any of our agreements," a senior Israeli diplomatic official told reporters.
  • (6) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
  • (7) The precision of measurement using the cancellation technique was found to be high.
  • (8) In desperation, I cancelled my contract with Sky and placed a new order with BT in February.
  • (9) The same figures say that 55% had to cancel between three and seven weeks of fixtures and 33% between seven and 11.
  • (10) It also cancelled the results from 21 polling stations in Libreville.
  • (11) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
  • (12) We arrange the meetings on the North Korea-China border and give the USB sticks which then will move into North Korea.” North Korea to face the music after cancelling Moranbong shows Read more Stratton says she also hopes it will change the way some Americans think of North Koreans.
  • (13) Then, the c-wave was cancelled out in appearance on the recordings.
  • (14) Any process which weakens the cartilaginous endplate or the subchondral cancellous bone may predispose to the development of Schmorl's nodes.
  • (15) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
  • (16) Because of a reduction in cancelled cycles, patients might reduce their total costs in time and gonadotrophin used, however this treatment is not a panacea for the true low order responder.
  • (17) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
  • (18) Russia has warned the Kiev government against using force against the protesters in the east and has threatened to cancel in international diplomatic conference on the Ukrainian conflict scheduled for later this week.
  • (19) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
  • (20) A spokesman for the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which represents Rajapaksa, denied that he had cancelled his trip to the UK last month becuse of fears that he might face an arrest warrant.

Expunged


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Expunge

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In seeking to escape all interpretive subjectivity, medicine has threatened to expunge its primary subject--the living, experiencing patient.
  • (2) When you build a wall in this city to expunge, reject, thousands of people on a demographic basis, that’s un-Jewish.” “What is Jewish?” I asked.
  • (3) The finish was emphatic, an afternoon’s frustration expunged with one swing of his left boot.
  • (4) Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma - in a state which wants to expunge its racist history from its history classes - video leaked of a fraternity singing racists chants which would have been at home in the film Birth of A Nation (if sound had only been in movies a hundred years ago).
  • (5) This responsibility rightly involves executing convicted murderers, including abortionists, for their crimes in order to expunge bloodguilt from the land and people.” On Wednesday Butler welcomed the minister’s decision to block the visa and rejected claims Newman had been subjected to false accusations.
  • (6) I want to assure the people of NSW that, as premier, I intend to overhaul the political culture of NSW so that the wrongdoings that have been uncovered in a series of recent ICAC investigations will never happen again.” Baird said he was a supporter of using public funding to pay for political campaigns, “as a mechanism to expunge the corrosive culture of political donations”.
  • (7) "We will be doing all we can to get this ludicrous notice expunged and hope common sense eventually prevails."
  • (8) Statues are removed from their plinths; the names of streets, squares, buildings and banknotes are hastily changed to expunge mentions of discredited leaders and dubious historical heroes.
  • (9) It was treated as a misdemeanor, and he was about to finish a diversion program which would have expunged all mention of it from his record, but it was deemed enough in the age of Trump to have him picked up and held overnight.
  • (10) It became so good at enabling the industry's excesses that the industry returned the favour, embroiling the agency in a drugs-and-sex scandal that forced high-level resignations and a re-branding aimed at expunging its tarnished record.
  • (11) One excerpt editors want to expunge from the latest edition of her 2004 novel refers to the forced abortions and sterilisations undergone by women as a result of China’s one-child policy, which was formally scrapped last month after 35 years.
  • (12) One raised the fact that "Pygmy" is not actually an ethnic group, but a word used by anthropologists to describe various ethnic groups whose adult males are less than 150cm tall on average , going on to ask whether, given that it "isn't a race but a rather arbitrary size categorisation … we are going to expunge all insulting language [if] it demeans someone?"
  • (13) The government has also said applications for expungement will be ruled on by the secretary of the Department of Justice, as they are in New South Wales.
  • (14) While Podemos vows to expunge corruption, the governing PP has sought to downplay its existence.
  • (15) "It was expunging of the soul in that song: here I am, cut me with a sword, let me bleed, and I'll get back up and we'll move on."
  • (16) The Earth itself being demonstrably finite and thus – even if all other life is expunged to support humanity – there is an end point.
  • (17) At the same time that, when it comes to poor people, vacant rooms are deemed an offence to be expunged, they grow unchecked in the most desirable parts of London.
  • (18) The legislation will allow men to apply for expungement of convictions they received under three previous laws criminalising “sexual intercourse against the order of nature”, “consensual sexual intercourse between males”, and “indecent practices between males”.
  • (19) Take the collective memory from our museums; remove the bands from our schools and choirs from our communities; lose the empathetic plays and dance from our theatres or the books from our libraries; expunge our festivals, literature and painting, and you're left with a society bereft of a national conversation … about its identity or anything else.
  • (20) Chinese links were expunged from the "Mandarin", a comic villain played by Ben Kingsley.

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