expugn

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French expugner, from Latin expugnō (to take by storm).

Verb[edit]

expugn (third-person singular simple present expugns, present participle expugning, simple past and past participle expugned)

  1. (obsolete) To take by storm; capture. [15th–17th c.]