memory-holing

English

Noun

memory-holing (uncountable)

1. An action or instance of alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records.
   • 2015, D. Christian Markham, There Are Save Two Churches Only, Volume II, Volume 2‎:

     However, the extent of memory-holing that occurred with Elder Poelman's talk was not only extensive and unprecedented (as far as we know) but altogether ironic, given that all this occurred during the actual year of 1984.

Verb

memory-holing

1. present participle and gerund of memory-hole