Hypertext Webster Gateway: "expugn"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Expugn \Ex*pugn"\ ([e^]ks*p[=u]n"), v. t. [L. expugnare; ex out
+ pugnare to fight, pugna fight. Cf. {Impugn}.]
To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as,
to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.
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